Retired Public Employees Council of WA Working to protect and enhance the pension and health care benefits of Washington retired state, county and local government employees
Retired Public Employees Council
Bill Status Report
Upcoming Events
Ways & Means (Senate) – SHR 4, – 2/3 @ 3:30pm
- SB 6622 – Public Hearing – Protects pensions from some pension advance loan companies
Government Operations & Security (Senate) – SHR 2, – 2/4 @ 10:00am
- SB 6258 – Public Hearing – Concerning employment after public service in state government.
| Bill Details | Status | Sponsor | Position | ||
| HB 2138 (SB 6017) | PERS and TRS plan 1 COLAs | H Approps | Reykdal | Support | |
| Providing cost-of-living adjustments for plan 1 retirees of the teachers’ retirement system and public employees’ retirement system. 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. | |||||
| HB 2298 | Domestic partnerships/PERS | H Rules R | Moeller | Support | |
| Addressing survivor benefits from the public employees’ retirement system for survivors of members in registered domestic partnerships prior to December 2012. 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, provided the retirement allowance payable to the retiree is not subject to periodic payments pursuant to a property division obligation. | |||||
| HB 2333 | PERS plan choice | H Approps | Reykdal | Monitoring | |
| Providing a choice between membership in the public employees’ retirement system plans 2 and 3 for employees age twenty-five or less in subsequent terms of employment. 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. | |||||
| HB 2646 | Retirement system defaults | H Approps | Ormsby | Support | |
| Addressing plan membership default provisions in the public employees’ retirement system, the teachers’ retirement system, and the school employees’ retirement system. Modifies provisions in the public employees’ retirement system, the teachers’ retirement system, and the school employees’ retirement system with regard to plan membership default. | |||||
| SB 6258 | Employmnt after govt service | S GovtOp&Sec | Carlyle | Monitoring | |
| Concerning employment after public service in state government. Prohibits certain former state officials and employees from lobbying or attempting to influence state government within one year of leaving public service. Requires certain former state officials and employees to disclose certain employment activities for one year after leaving public service. | |||||
| SB 6433 | Forfeiting public pensions | S Ways & Means | Bailey | 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. Requires a court, if a member of a state retirement system or plan is convicted of or pleads guilty or nolo contendere to an offense that is a class 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 felony that was committed in the course of, or was related to, the member’s employment as a public official or public employee, to order the person’s membership terminated and the person shall forfeit all rights and benefits earned under the state retirement system or plan. | |||||
| SB 6434 | Garnishing public pensions | S Ways & Means | Bailey | Monitoring | |
| Garnishing public pensions to pay for the costs of incarceration of a public employee convicted of a felony for misconduct associated with such person’s service as a public employee. Addresses the department of retirement systems’ compliance with an order to garnish up to fifty percent of the gross monthly benefit for costs of incarceration, probation, parole, or restitution imposed on a member, former member, or retiree as a result of a conviction of or a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to the commission of a felony for misconduct associated with the person’s service as a public employee for which credit in the plan was earned or accrued, for felonies committed on or after July 1, 2015. | |||||
| SB 6435 | Optional salary deferral | S Ways & Means | Bailey | Monitoring | |
| Creating optional salary deferral programs. Creates optional salary deferral programs. Creates the money-purchase retirement savings principal account. Creates the money-purchase retirement savings administrative account. | |||||
| SB 6622 | Retirement benefit assign. | S Ways & Means | Fraser | Support | |
| Prohibiting the assignment of retirement benefits. Protects pensions from some pension advance loan companies | |||||
