2016 Bill Status Report – 2/18/2016
February 18, 2016
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Retired Public Employees Council Bill Status Report
Bill Details |
Status |
Sponsor |
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Position |
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HB2138 SB6017 |
PERS and TRS plan 1 COLAs |
DEAD |
Reykdal |
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Support |
Provides the same annual cost-of-living adjustment for plan 1 retirees of the teachers’ retirement system and the public employees’ retirement system as is provided for plan 2 and plan 3 members of those systems. |
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HB2298 |
Domestic partnerships/PERS |
H Passed, S Ways & Means |
Moeller |
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Support |
Requires the department of retirement systems to adopt rules to permit certain spouses of public employees’ retirement system members the opportunity to designate themselves as a postretirement marriage survivor between September 1, 2016, and December 31, 2016. |
HB 2424 |
Hospital discharge planning |
DEAD |
Tharinger |
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Support |
Providing for hospital discharge planning with lay caregivers. Addresses lay caregivers providing assistance to a patient after the patient’s discharge from a hospital. Requires hospital discharge policies to ensure that a discharge plan is appropriate for the patient’s physical condition, emotional and social needs, and, if a lay caregiver is designated takes into consideration, to the extent possible, the lay caregiver’s abilities as disclosed to the hospital. |
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HB2333 |
PERS plan choice |
DEAD |
Reykdal |
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Monitoring |
Authorizes an employee to choose to earn future service credit as a member of plan 2 or plan 3 of the public employees’ retirement system if they are: (1) Age twenty-five or less; (2) Validly separated from employment from an employer; and (3) Subsequently employed by a different employer in an eligible position. |
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HB2646 |
Retirement system defaults |
DEAD |
Ormsby |
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Support |
Modifies provisions in the public employees’ retirement system, the teachers’ retirement system, and the school employees’ retirement system with regard to plan membership default. |
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SB6209 HB2319 |
Continuity of care/Rx insur. |
DEAD |
Rivers |
Support |
Concerning prescription drug insurance continuity of care. |
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SB6258 |
Employment after govt service |
DEAD |
Carlyle |
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Monitoring |
Prohibits certain former state officials and employees from lobbying or attempting to influence state government within one year of leaving public service. |
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SB 6433 |
Forfeiting public pensions |
DEAD |
Bailey |
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Monitoring |
Authorizing the forfeiture of the pension of a public employee convicted of a felony for misconduct associated with such person’s service as a public employee. |
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SB6434 |
Garnishing public pensions |
DEAD |
Bailey |
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Monitoring |
Garnishing public pensions to pay for the costs of incarceration of a public employee convicted of a felony for misconduct associated with service as a public employee. |
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SB6435 |
Optional salary deferral |
DEAD |
Bailey |
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Monitoring |
Creates optional salary deferral programs. Creates the money-purchase retirement savings principal account. Creates the money-purchase retirement savings administrative account. |
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SB 6555
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Personal needs allowance |
DEAD |
Rolfes |
Support |
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Requires the personal needs allowance to be adjusted for economic trends and conditions by increasing the allowance by the percentage cost-of-living adjustment for old-age, survivors, and disability social security benefits as published by the federal social security administration. |
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SB 6585 |
Elder justice centers |
DEAD |
Cleveland |
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Support |
Addresses the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and treatment of abandonment, abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation of vulnerable adults. Requires the department of social and health services to establish two elder justice center demonstration programs, one in Clark county and the other in Spokane county. |
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SB6593 |
Rx drug prices |
DEAD |
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Support |
Promoting greater fairness for taxpayers in prescription drug costs by pursuing prices that are aligned with or lower than the negotiated prices available to the United States veterans administration.
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SB6622 |
Retirement benefit assign. |
DEAD |
Fraser |
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Support |
Prohibiting the assignment of retirement benefits. Protects pensions from some pension advance loan companies |