Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.005
Provisions applicable to "plan 1," "plan 2," and "plan 3."
"PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO PLAN 1, PLAN 2, AND PLAN 3" RCW 41.32.010 through 41.32.067 shall apply to members of plan 1, plan 2, and plan 3.
Revised Code of Washington Chapter 41.32 — Teachers' Retirement
Washington · statute · Wash. Rev. Code ch. 41.32 · 104 active provisions
Provisions
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.010
Definitions
As used in this chapter, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context:(1)(a) "Accumulated contributions" for plan 1 members, means the sum of all regular annuity contributions and, except for the purpose of withdrawal at the time of retirement, any amount paid under RCW 41.50.165(2) with regular intere…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.012
Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521
For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married person…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.013
Substitute teachers—Application for service credit—Procedures
Substitute teachers may apply to the department to receive service credit or credit for earnable compensation or both after the end of the last day of instruction of the school year during which the service was performed.(1) The application must:(a) Include a list of the employers the substitute teacher has worked for;…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.020
Name of system
The name of the retirement system provided for in this chapter shall be the "Washington State Teachers' Retirement System" and by this name all of its business shall be transacted and all of its funds invested and all of its cash, securities and other property held.
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.025
Department's power to determine eligibility
The department is empowered within the limits of this chapter and, with regard to restoration of service credit under RCW 41.50.165(2), to decide on all questions of eligibility covering membership, service credit, and benefits.
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.032
Membership in system—Service credit of educational staff associates
(1) Any teacher, as defined under RCW 41.32.010, who is first employed by a public school on or after June 7, 1984, shall become a member of the retirement system if otherwise eligible.(2) Any person who before June 7, 1984, has established service credit under chapter 41.40 RCW while employed in an educational staff a…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.033
Membership in system—Charter school employers and employees
This section designates charter schools established under chapter 28A.710 RCW as employers and charter school employees as members, and applies only if the department of retirement systems receives determinations from the internal revenue service and the United States department of labor that participation does not jeo…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.035
Employer contribution rates—Computation and payment
The amount paid by each employer shall be computed by applying the rates established under chapter 41.45 RCW to the total earnable compensation of the employer's members as shown on the current payrolls of the employer. The employer's contribution shall be paid at the end of each month in the amount due for that month,…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.042
Validity of deductions—Interest
The deductions from salaries of members of the retirement system for their contributions to the system are not considered diminution of pay and every member is conclusively presumed to consent thereto as a condition of employment. All contributions to the member reserve shall be credited to the individual for whose acc…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.044
Retired teacher may reenter system—Benefit limitations
A retired teacher upon returning to service in the public schools of Washington may elect to again become a member of the retirement system: PROVIDED, That if such a retired teacher elects to be restored to membership he or she must establish two full years of service credit before he or she will be eligible to retire…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.052
Exemption from taxation and judicial process—Exceptions—Nonassignability—Deductions authorized
(1) Subject to subsections (2), (3), and (4) of this section, the right of a person to a pension, an annuity, a retirement allowance, or disability allowance, to the return of contributions, any optional benefit or death benefit, any other right accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of this chapter and…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.053
Death benefit—Course of employment—Occupational disease or infection
(1) A one hundred fifty thousand dollar death benefit shall be paid to the member's estate, or such person or persons, trust or organization as the member has nominated by written designation duly executed and filed with the department. If no such designated person or persons are still living at the time of the member'…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.054
Disability retirement—Criminal conduct
A member shall not receive a disability retirement benefit under RCW 41.32.540, 41.32.550, 41.32.790, or 41.32.880 if the disability is the result of criminal conduct by the member committed after April 21, 1997.
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.055
Falsification—Penalty
(1) Any person who shall knowingly make false statements or shall falsify or permit to be falsified any record or records of the retirement system, except under subsection (2) of this section, in any attempt to defraud such system as a result of such act, is guilty of a class B felony punishable according to chapter 9A…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.062
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.
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.063
Benefit calculation—Limitation
(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.
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.064
Establishing, restoring service credit
Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, persons who fail to:(1) Establish allowable membership service not previously credited;(2) Restore all or a part of that previously credited membership service represented by withdrawn contributions; or(3) Restore service credit represented by a lump sum payment in lieu of…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.0641
Disabled in the line of duty—Continuation of service credit—Conditions
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:(1) No member may receive more than one month's serv…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.065
Election to use out-of-state service credit to calculate time at which the member may retire
A member who has not purchased service credit under the provisions of RCW 41.32.813 or 41.32.868 may elect under this section to apply service credit earned in an out-of-state retirement system that covers teachers in public schools solely for the purpose of determining the time at which the member may retire. The bene…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.066
Purchase of additional service credit—Costs—Rules
(1) A member eligible to retire under RCW 41.32.480, 41.32.765, or 41.32.875 may, at the time of filing a written application for retirement with the department, apply to the department to make a one-time purchase of up to five years of additional service credit.(2) To purchase additional service credit under this sect…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.067
Purchase of additional benefits—Conditions
A member may purchase additional benefits subject to the following:(1) The member shall pay all reasonable administrative and clerical costs; and(2) The member shall make a member reserve contribution to be actuarially converted to a monthly benefit at the time of retirement.
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.215
Provisions applicable to plan 1
"PLAN 1" RCW 41.32.240 through * 41.32.575 shall apply only to members of plan 1.
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.240
Membership in system
(1) All teachers employed full time in the public schools shall be members of the system except noncitizen teachers who have been granted a temporary permit to teach as exchange teachers.(2) A minimum of ninety days or the equivalent of ninety days of employment during a fiscal year shall be required to establish membe…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.32.260
Credit for military service or as state legislator
Any member whose public school service is interrupted by active service to the United States as a member of its uniformed services, or to the state of Washington, as a member of the legislature, may upon becoming reemployed in the public schools, receive credit for that service upon presenting satisfactory proof, and c…
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