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2009 Fiscal Notes

The Office of the State Actuary is responsible for providing a fiscal note on each pension bill introduced in the Legislature and all amendments that are offered.

All bill numbers are linked to the bill information system on the Legislature's public website.  OFM-approved fiscal notes may be accessed through the legislative site or directly from the OFM website.  Bills are listed in numerical order, by House bill.

 

As of April 28, 2009

House Bill

Senate Bill

Brief Title

1244 5600

Making 2009-2011 operating appropriations.

1443 5333

Creating a Washington state patrol retirement system deferred option plan.

1444 5332

Administering the Washington state patrol retirement system.

1445 5439

Providing benefits to domestic partners under the Washington state patrol retirement system.

1506 5311

Providing benefits for the survivors of certain firefighters.

1541 5302

Granting half-time service credit for half-time educational employment prior to January 1, 1987, in plans 2 and 3 of the school employees' retirement system and the public employees' retirement system.

1542 5305

Repealing certain obsolete state retirement system statutes.

1543 5304

Lowering the general salary increase assumption for the actuarial funding of certain public retirement systems.

1544 5310

Addressing the state actuary's recommendations for assumptions used in the actuarial funding of the state retirement systems.

1545 5308

Authorizing the higher education coordinating board to offer higher education annuities and retirement income plans.

1546 5303

Transferring public employees' retirement system plan 2 members to the school employees' retirement system plan 2.

1547 5312

Increasing the duty-related death benefit for public employees.

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1548 5313

Addressing interruptive military service credit within plans 2 and 3 of the public employees' retirement system, plans 2 and 3 of the school employees' retirement system, plans 2 and 3 of the teachers' retirement system, plan 2 of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system, plan 2 of the Washington state patrol retirement system, and the public safety employees' retirement system.

1549 5306

Studying disability benefit options for members of the public employees' retirement system plan 2 and plan 3, the teachers' retirement system plan 2 and plan 3, and the school employees' retirement system plan 2 and plan 3.

1550 5315

Extending the survivor annuity option for preretirement death in plan 1 of the public employees' retirement system to members who die after leaving active service.

1551

5314

Addressing the survivor benefits of employees who die while honorably serving in the national guard or military reserves during a period of war.

1599

Providing retirement benefits at earlier ages in the plans 2 and 3 of the public employees' retirement system, the teachers' retirement system, and the school employees' retirement system.

1600

Participating in insurance plans and contracts by separated plan 2 members of certain retirement systems.

1601

5489

Participating in insurance plans and contracts by separated plan 2 members of certain retirement systems.

1602

5490

Addressing postretirement employment.

1616

Addressing the state pension benefits of certain domestic partners.

1678

5542

Providing a minimum retirement allowance for members of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system plan 2 who were disabled in the line of duty before January 1, 2001.

1679

5541

Providing access to catastrophic disability medical insurance under plan 2 of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system.

1722

5307

Addressing plan membership default provisions in the public employees' retirement system.

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1727

5688

Expanding the rights and responsibilities of state registered domestic partners.

1742

5523

Including court commissioners employed by the supreme court, court of appeals, superior courts, district courts, and municipal courts in the judicial benefit multiplier program of the public employees' retirement system.

1932

Regarding presumptive occupational diseases affecting firefighters.

1953

5309

Including service credit transferred from the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system plan 1 in the determination of eligibility for military service credit.

2143

Reducing the postretirement employment restrictions for members of the teachers' retirement system, school employees' retirement system, and the public employees' retirement system that retire after earning thirty or more years of service.

2196

Allowing department of fish and wildlife enforcement officers to transfer service credit.

5588

Administering, suspending, and eliminating boards and commissions.

5632

Permitting retired participants to resume volunteer firefighter, emergency worker, or reserve officer service.

6046

Preserving the fully funded status of certain closed plans within the state retirement systems.

6161

Relating to the actuarial funding of pension systems. Revised for 1st Substitute: Addressing the actuarial funding of pension systems.

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