RCW 41.32.215 Provisions applicable to plan 1. RCW 41.32.240 through * 41.32.575 shall apply only to members of plan 1. [ 1992 c 72 § 5; 1991 c 35 § 103.] NOTES: *Reviser’s note: RCW 41.32.575 was repealed by 1995 c 345 § 11. Intent—1991 c 35: See note following RCW 41.26.005.
RCW 41.32.240 Membership in system. (1) All teachers employed full time in the public schools shall be members of the system except alien 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 […]
RCW 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 […]
RCW 41.32.263 State legislators and state officials eligible for retirement benefits. A member of the retirement system who is a member of the state legislature or a state official eligible for the combined pension and annuity provided by RCW 41.32.497, or 41.32.498, as now or hereafter amended shall have deductions taken from his or her […]
RCW 41.32.267 Service credit for paid leave of absence—Application to elected officials of labor organizations. (1) A member who is on a paid leave of absence authorized by a member’s employer shall continue to receive service credit as provided under the provisions of RCW 41.32.240 through * 41.32.575. (2) A member who receives compensation from […]
RCW 41.32.270 Teaching service, how credited. Service rendered for four-fifths or more of the official school year of the school district or institution in which a teacher is employed shall be credited as a year’s service regardless of the length of the school term, but in no case shall more than one year of service […]
RCW 41.32.300 Limitation on credit for out-of-state service. (1) Henceforth a total of not more than four years of service outside of the state shall be credited to a member who establishes or reestablishes credit for out-of-state public school employment in this state subsequent to July 1, 1961. Foreign public school teaching service shall be […]
RCW 41.32.310 Time limit for claiming service credit—Payments. (1) Any member desiring to establish credit for services previously rendered, must present proof and make the necessary payments on or before June 30 of the fifth school year of membership. Payments covering all types of membership service credit must be made in a lump sum when […]
RCW 41.32.330 Credit for professional preparation subsequent to becoming teacher. The department may allow credit for professional preparation to a member for attendance at institutions of higher learning, or for a scholarship or grant under an established foundation, subsequent to becoming a public school teacher; but not more than two years of such credit may […]
RCW 41.32.340 Creditable service, what to consist of. Creditable service of a member at retirement shall consist of the membership service rendered for which credit has been allowed, and also, if a prior service certificate is in full force and effect, the amount of the service certified on the prior service certificate. No pension payments […]
RCW 41.32.345 “Earnable compensation” defined for certain part-time employees—Adoption of rules. (1) Subject to the limitations contained in this section, for the purposes of *RCW 41.32.010(10)(a)(ii), earnable compensation means the compensation the member would have received in the same position if employed on a regular full-time basis for the same contract period. (2) In order […]
RCW 41.32.350 Purchase of additional annuity—Member contribution rate. A member may make an additional lump sum payment at date of retirement, not to exceed the member’s accumulated contributions, to purchase additional annuity. A contribution of six percent of earnable compensation is required from each member, except as provided under RCW 41.32.013. [ 1991 c 35 […]
RCW 41.32.380 Source of pension reserve—Contributions. There shall be placed in the pension reserve all appropriations made by the legislature for the purpose of paying pensions and survivors’ benefits and of establishing and maintaining an actuarial reserve and all gifts and bequests to the pension reserve, and contributions of persons entering the retirement system who […]
RCW 41.32.390 Contributions for prior service credits. At least twenty percent of the total amount due for prior service credit must be paid before an application for credit may be presented to the department for approval. The balance is not due until date of retirement and may be paid at that time without additional charge. […]
RCW 41.32.470 Eligibility for retirement allowance. A member who is not a dual member under RCW 41.54.010 must have established or reestablished with the retirement system at least five years of credit for public school service in this state to be entitled to a retirement allowance. [ 1994 c 298 § 4; 1965 ex.s. c […]
RCW 41.32.480 Qualifications for retirement. (1) Any member who separates from service after having completed thirty years of creditable service may retire upon the approval by the department of an application for retirement filed on the prescribed form. Upon retirement the member shall receive a retirement allowance consisting of an annuity which shall be the […]
RCW 41.32.483 Annual increase amount—Legislature’s rights reserved—No additional increases after June 30, 2011. (1) Beginning July 1, 2009, the annual increase amount as defined in RCW 41.32.010(4) shall be increased by an amount equal to $0.40 per month per year of service minus the 2008 gain-sharing increase amount under *RCW 41.31.010 as it exists on […]
RCW 41.32.485 Minimum retirement allowance—Cost-of-living adjustment—Post-retirement adjustment—Computation. (1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, effective July 1, 1989, as a cost-of-living adjustment, no beneficiary receiving a retirement allowance pursuant to this chapter shall receive, as the pension portion of that retirement allowance, less than fourteen dollars and eighty-two cents per month for each […]
RCW 41.32.4851 Minimum retirement allowance—Annual adjustment—Persons who become beneficiaries after June 30, 1995. (1) No one who becomes a beneficiary after June 30, 1995, shall receive a monthly retirement allowance of less than twenty-four dollars and twenty-two cents times the number of years of service creditable to the person whose service is the basis of […]
RCW 41.32.4872 Permanent increase for specified beneficiaries age seventy or over. (1) The amount of the July 1, 1993, increase to the retirement allowance of beneficiaries under this chapter as a result of the temporary adjustment authorized by section 2, chapter 519, Laws of 1993, shall be made a permanent adjustment on July 1, 1995. […]
