Wash. Rev. Code § 41.40.005
Provisions applicable to "plan 1," "plan 2," and "plan 3."
"PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO PLAN 1, PLAN 2, AND PLAN 3" RCW 41.40.010 through * 41.40.112 shall apply to members of plan 1, plan 2, and plan 3.
Revised Code of Washington Chapter 41.40 — Washington Public Employees' Retirement System
Washington · statute · Wash. Rev. Code ch. 41.40 · 131 active provisions
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.40.010
Definitions. (Effective until June 30, 2029.)
As used in this chapter, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context:(1) "Accumulated contributions" means the sum of all contributions standing to the credit of a member in the member's individual account, including any amount paid under RCW 41.50.165(2), together with the regular interest thereon.(2…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.40.015
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 § 41.40.020
System created—Administration
A state employees' retirement system is hereby created for the employees of the state of Washington and its political subdivisions. 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 and regulations nece…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.40.023
Membership. (Effective until January 1, 2027.)
Membership in the retirement system shall consist of all regularly compensated employees and appointive and elective officials of employers, as defined in this chapter, with the following exceptions:(1) Persons in ineligible positions;(2) Employees of the legislature except the officers thereof elected by the members o…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.40.025
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 § 41.40.028
Nonelective position employees employed for at least nine months—Deemed in 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.
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.40.034
Purchase of additional service credit—Costs—Rules
(1) A member eligible to retire under RCW 41.40.180, 41.40.630, or 41.40.820 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 § 41.40.035
Service credit prohibited for certain members of committees, boards, and commissions and for certain appointive and elective officials
(1) No person appointed to membership on any committee, board, or commission on or after July 1, 1976, who is compensated for service on such committee, board, or commission for fewer than ten days or seventy hours in any month, whichever amount is less, shall receive service credit for such service for that month: PRO…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.40.037
Service by retirees—Break in employment requirement—Reduction of retirement allowance upon reemployment—Reestablishment of membership. (Effective until June 30, 2029.)
(1)(a) If a retiree enters employment with an employer sooner than one calendar month after his or her accrual date, the retiree's monthly retirement allowance will be reduced by five and one-half percent for every eight hours worked during that month. This reduction will be applied each month until the retiree remains…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.40.038
Duty disability retirement recipients—Continued service credit
Those members subject to this chapter who became disabled in the line of duty on or after March 27, 1984, 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 receiv…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.40.042
Members agree to deductions
The deductions from the compensation of members, provided for in RCW 41.40.330, 41.45.060, 41.45.061, or 41.45.067, 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 provid…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.40.048
Employer's contribution—Computation—Billing
(1) The director shall report to each employer the contribution rates required for the ensuing biennium or fiscal year, whichever is applicable.(2) Beginning September 1, 1990, the amount to be collected as the employer's contribution shall be computed by applying the applicable rates established in chapter 41.45 RCW t…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.40.052
Exemption from taxation and judicial process—Exceptions—Assignability—Deductions authorized
(1) Subject to subsections (2), (3), and (4) of this section, the right of a person to a pension, an annuity, or retirement allowance, any optional benefit, any other right accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of this chapter, the various funds created by this chapter, and all moneys and investments a…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.40.054
Disability retirement—Criminal conduct
A member shall not receive a disability retirement benefit under RCW 41.40.200, 41.40.220, 41.40.230, 41.40.235, 41.40.250, 41.40.670, or 41.40.825 if the disability is the result of criminal conduct by the member committed after April 21, 1997.
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.40.055
Penalty for false statements
Any person who shall knowingly make any false statements, or shall falsify or permit to be falsified any record or records of this retirement system in any attempt to defraud the retirement system as a result of such act, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.40.056
Establishment of service credit—Former employees—Employers admitted before July 23, 1995
Except as qualified by RCW 41.40.023, for employers that were admitted into the retirement system before July 23, 1995, membership service may be established for the employer's former employees who are active members of the system if the member or member's former employer pays an amount equal to the employer and member…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.40.057
Establishment of service credit—Current and former employees—Employers admitted after July 23, 1995
(1) This section applies to the establishment of membership service with employers admitted to the retirement system after July 23, 1995.(2) For current employees, membership service may be established for periods of employment with an employer prior to the employer's admission into the retirement system by making the…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.40.058
Transfer of service credit from statewide city employees' retirement system
(1) Any person who was a member of the statewide city employees' retirement system governed by chapter 41.44 RCW and who also became a member of this retirement system on or before July 26, 1987, may, in a writing filed with the director, elect to:(a) Transfer to this retirement system all service currently credited un…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.40.059
Credit for service in Seattle's police relief and pension fund system. (Effective until June 30, 2029.)
Any active member of this retirement system who has previously established ten or more years' service credit in the city of Seattle's police relief and pension fund system, who withdrew his or her contributions from Seattle's police relief and pension fund system prior to July 1, 1961, and who has never been a member o…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.40.061
Credit for service in Seattle's police relief and pension fund system—Terms and conditions
(1) A member who fulfills the requirements of RCW 41.40.059 may file a written declaration no later than September 30, 1992, with the department and the Seattle police relief and pension fund system indicating the member's desire to make an irrevocable transfer of credit from the Seattle system to this retirement syste…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.40.062
Optional entry of system by political subdivisions or associations of political subdivisions—Procedure—School districts declared employers and eligible employees members of system—Exception
(1) The members and appointive and elective officials of any political subdivision or association of political subdivisions of the state may become members of the retirement system by the approval of the local legislative authority.(2) On and after September 1, 1965, every school district of the state of Washington sha…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.40.068
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…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.40.073
Hearing prior to appeal—Conduct of hearing
Following its receipt of a notice for hearing in accordance with RCW 41.40.068, a hearing shall be held by the director or a duly authorized representative, in the county of the residence of the claimant at a time and place designated by the director. Such hearing shall be conducted and governed in all respects by the…
Wash. Rev. Code § 41.40.078
Judicial review in accordance with administrative procedure act
Judicial review of any final decision and order by the director is governed by the provisions of chapter 34.05 RCW.
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