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Chapter 41.37 RCW: WASHINGTON PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM
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Chapter 41.37 RCW
WASHINGTON PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM
41.37.005 Intent.
41.37.010 Definitions.
41.37.015 System created—Administration.
41.37.020 Membership.
41.37.030 Nonelective position—Eligible position, when.
41.37.050 Reduction of retirement allowance upon reemployment or if covered by a plan under RCW 28B.10.400—Reinstatement of membership.
41.37.060 Duty disability retirement recipients—Continued service credit.
41.37.070 Members agree to deductions.
41.37.080 Employer's contribution—Computation—Billing.
41.37.090 Exemption from taxation and judicial process—Exemptions—Assignability—Deductions authorized.
41.37.100 Disability retirement—Criminal conduct.
41.37.110 Death benefit—Course of employment—Occupational disease or infection.
41.37.120 False statements—Penalty.
41.37.130 Hearing prior to appeal required—Notice.
41.37.135 Hearing prior to appeal required—Conduct of hearing.
41.37.140 Judicial review of final decision.
41.37.145 Appeal—No bond required.
41.37.150 Effect of certain accumulated vacation leave on retirement benefits.
41.37.155 Benefit calculation—Limitation.
41.37.160 Postretirement cost-of-living.
41.37.170 Options for payment of retirement allowances—Court-approved property settlement.
41.37.180 Suspension of retirement allowance upon reemployment—Exceptions—Reinstatement.
41.37.190 Computation of retirement allowance.
41.37.200 Lump sum retirement allowance—Reentry—Reinstatement of service.
41.37.210 Retirement eligibility.
41.37.220 Employer and member contribution rates.
41.37.230 Disability allowance—Actuarial reduction—Disposition upon death of recipient.
41.37.240 Application for and effective date of retirement allowances.
41.37.250 Death benefits.
41.37.260 Leaves of absence, military service.
41.37.265 Purchase of additional service credit—Costs—Rules.
41.37.270 Vested membership.
41.37.280 Refund of contributions.
41.37.290 Reentry.
41.37.300 Election to transfer public employees' retirement system service credit—Eligibility—Retroactive to July 1, 2006.
41.37.301 Election to transfer public employees' retirement system service credit—Certain employees providing nursing care.
41.37.900 Benefits not contractual right until July 1, 2006.
41.37.901 Effective date—2004 c 242.
41.37.902 Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
RCW 41.37.005
It is the intent of the legislature to establish a separate public safety employees' retirement system for certain public employees whose jobs contain a high degree of physical risk to their own personal safety and who provide public protection of lives and property, but who are not eligible for membership in the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system.
[ 2006 c 309 § 1; 2004 c 242 § 1.]
Effective date—2006 c 309: "This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect immediately [March 29, 2006]." [ 2006 c 309 § 6.]
RCW 41.37.015
System created—Administration.
A retirement system is hereby created for public safety employees of the Washington state department of corrections, the Washington state parks and recreation commission, the Washington state gambling commission, the Washington state patrol, the Washington *state liquor control board, county corrections departments, and city corrections departments not covered under chapter 41.28 RCW. The administration and management of the retirement system, the responsibility for making effective the provisions of this chapter, and the authority to make all rules necessary therefor are hereby vested in the department. All rules shall be governed by chapter 34.05 RCW. This retirement system shall be known as the Washington public safety employees' retirement system.
[ 2004 c 242 § 3.]
RCW 41.37.030
Nonelective position—Eligible position, when.
Any person who has been employed in a nonelective position for at least nine months and who has made member contributions required under this chapter throughout such period, shall be deemed to have been in an eligible position during such period of employment.
[ 2004 c 242 § 6.]
RCW 41.37.060
Duty disability retirement recipients—Continued service credit.
Those members subject to this chapter who became disabled in the line of duty and who received or are receiving benefits under Title 51 RCW or a similar federal workers' compensation program shall receive or continue to receive service credit subject to the following:
(5) Contributions shall be based on the regular compensation which the member would have received had the disability not occurred. If contribution payments are made retroactively, interest shall be charged at the rate set by the director on both employee and employer contributions. Service credit shall not be granted until the employee contribution has been paid.
(6) The service and compensation credit shall not be granted for a period to exceed twenty-four consecutive months.
(7) Should the legislature revoke the service credit authorized under this section or repeal this section, no affected employee is entitled to receive the credit as a matter of contractual right.
[ 2007 c 49 § 4; 2004 c 242 § 9.]
RCW 41.37.070
Members agree to deductions.
The deductions from the compensation of members, provided for in RCW 41.37.220, shall be made notwithstanding that the minimum compensation provided for by law for any member shall be reduced thereby. Every member shall be deemed to consent and agree to the deductions made and provided for in this chapter and receipt in full for his or her salary or compensation, and payment, less the deductions, shall be a full and complete discharge and acquittance of all claims and demands whatsoever for the services rendered by the person during the period covered by the payment, except as to benefits provided for under this chapter.
[ 2004 c 242 § 10.]
RCW 41.37.080
(2) Beginning July 1, 2006, the amount to be collected as the employer's contribution shall be computed by applying the applicable rates established in chapter 41.45 RCW to the total compensation earnable of employer's members as shown on the current payrolls of the employer. Each employer shall compute at the end of each month the amount due for that month and the same shall be paid as are its other obligations.
(3) In the event of failure, for any reason, of an employer other than a political subdivision of the state to have remitted amounts due for membership service of any of the employer's members rendered during a prior biennium, the director shall bill that employer for the employer's contribution together with the charges the director deems appropriate in accordance with RCW 41.50.120. This billing shall be paid by the employer as, and the same shall be, a proper charge against any moneys available or appropriated to the employer for payment of current biennial payrolls.
[ 2004 c 242 § 11.]
RCW 41.37.100
A member shall not receive a disability retirement benefit under RCW 41.37.230 if the disability is the result of criminal conduct by the member committed after July 1, 2006.
[ 2004 c 242 § 13.]
RCW 41.37.110
(1) A one hundred fifty thousand dollar death benefit shall be paid to the member's estate, or the person or persons, trust, or organization the member has nominated by written designation duly executed and filed with the department. If the designated person or persons are not still living at the time of the member's death, the member's death benefit shall be paid to the member's surviving spouse as if in fact the spouse had been nominated by written designation, or if there is no surviving spouse, then to the member's legal representatives.
(2) The benefit under this section shall be paid only where death occurs as a result of (a) injuries sustained in the course of employment; or (b) an occupational disease or infection that arises naturally and proximately out of employment covered under this chapter. The determination of eligibility for the benefit shall be made consistent with Title 51 RCW by the department of labor and industries. The department of labor and industries shall notify the department of retirement systems by order under RCW 51.52.050.
[ 2007 c 487 § 5; 2004 c 242 § 14.]
RCW 41.37.120
False statements—Penalty.
Any person who knowingly makes any false statements, or falsifies or permits to be falsified any record or records of this retirement system in any attempt to defraud the retirement system as a result of such an act, is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
[ 2004 c 242 § 15.]
RCW 41.37.130
Hearing prior to appeal required—Notice.
Any person aggrieved by any decision of the department affecting his or her legal rights, duties, or privileges must, before he or she appeals to the courts, file with the director by mail or personally within sixty days from the day the decision was communicated to the person, a notice for a hearing before the director's designee. The notice of hearing shall set forth in full detail the grounds upon which the person considers the decision unjust or unlawful and shall include every issue to be considered by the department, and it must contain a detailed statement of facts upon which the person relies in support of the appeal. These persons shall be deemed to have waived all objections or irregularities concerning the matter on which the appeal is taken, other than those specifically set forth in the notice of hearing or appearing in the records of the retirement system.
[ 2004 c 242 § 16.]
RCW 41.37.135
Hearing prior to appeal required—Conduct of hearing.
Following its receipt of a notice for hearing in accordance with RCW 41.37.130, a hearing shall be held by the director or an authorized representative, in the county of the residence of the claimant at a time and place designated by the director. This hearing shall be conducted and governed in all respects by chapter 34.05 RCW.
[ 2004 c 242 § 17.]
RCW 41.37.140
Judicial review of final decision.
Judicial review of any final decision and order by the director is governed by chapter 34.05 RCW.
[ 2004 c 242 § 18.]
RCW 41.37.145
Appeal—No bond required.
A bond of any kind shall not be required of a claimant appealing to the superior court, the court of appeals, or the supreme court from a finding of the department affecting the claimant's right to retirement or disability benefits.
[ 2004 c 242 § 19.]
RCW 41.37.150
Effect of certain accumulated vacation leave on retirement benefits.
RCW 43.01.044 shall not result in any increase in retirement benefits. The rights extended to state officers and employees under RCW 43.01.044 are not intended to and shall not have any effect on retirement benefits under this chapter.
[ 2004 c 242 § 20.]
RCW 41.37.155
(1) The annual compensation taken into account in calculating retiree benefits under this system shall not exceed the limits imposed by section 401(a)(17) of the federal internal revenue code for qualified trusts.
(2) The department shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this section.
[ 2004 c 242 § 21.]
RCW 41.37.180
Suspension of retirement allowance upon reemployment—Exceptions—Reinstatement.
(1) Except as provided in RCW 41.37.050, a retiree shall not be eligible to receive the retiree's monthly retirement allowance if he or she is employed in an eligible position as defined in RCW 41.37.010, or RCW 41.35.010, 41.40.010, or 41.32.010, or as a law enforcement officer or firefighter as defined in RCW 41.26.030, except that a retiree who ends his or her membership in the retirement system pursuant to RCW 41.37.020(2)(b) is not subject to this section if the retiree's only employment is as an elective official.
(2) If a retiree's benefits have been suspended under this section, his or her benefits shall be reinstated when the retiree terminates the employment that caused his or her benefits to be suspended. Upon reinstatement, the retiree's benefits shall be actuarially recomputed pursuant to the rules adopted by the department.
[ 2004 c 242 § 24.]
RCW 41.37.190
Computation of retirement allowance.
[ 2004 c 242 § 25.]
RCW 41.37.270
A member who separates or has separated after having completed at least five years of service may remain a member during the period of the member's absence from service for the exclusive purpose only of receiving a retirement allowance under RCW 41.37.210 if the member maintains the member's accumulated contributions intact.
[ 2004 c 242 § 33.]
RCW 41.37.280
A member who ceases to be an employee of an employer except by service or disability retirement may request a refund of the member's accumulated contributions. The refund shall be made within ninety days following the receipt of the request and notification of termination through the contribution reporting system by the employer; except that in the case of death, an initial payment shall be made within thirty days of receipt of request for such payment and notification of termination through the contribution reporting system by the employer. A member who files a request for refund and subsequently enters into employment with another employer prior to the refund being made shall not be eligible for a refund. The refund of accumulated contributions shall terminate all rights to benefits under RCW 41.37.190 through 41.37.290.
[ 2004 c 242 § 34.]
RCW 41.37.290
(1) A member, who had left service and withdrawn the member's accumulated contributions, shall receive service credit for prior service if the member restores all withdrawn accumulated contributions together with interest since the time of withdrawal as determined by the department.
The restoration of funds must be completed within five years of the resumption of service or prior to retirement, whichever occurs first.
(2) If a member fails to meet the time limitations of subsection (1) of this section, the member may receive service credit destroyed by the withdrawn contributions if the amount required under RCW 41.50.165(2) is paid.
[ 2004 c 242 § 35.]
RCW 41.37.900
Benefits not contractual right until July 1, 2006.
The benefits provided pursuant to chapter 242, Laws of 2004 are not provided to employees as a matter of contractual right prior to July 1, 2006. The legislature retains the right to alter or abolish these benefits at any time prior to July 1, 2006.
[ 2004 c 242 § 66.]
RCW 41.37.901
Effective date—2004 c 242.
[ 2004 c 242 § 65.]
RCW 41.37.902
[ 2009 c 521 § 98.]