Washington HB 1936: Concerning privileges of wineries related to liquor sales.

Bill Text

CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE BILL 1936
Chapter 284, Laws of 2025
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
SCHOOLS—POSTRETIREMENT EMPLOYMENT—EXTENSION
EFFECTIVE DATE: May 15, 2025
Passed by the House April 24, 2025
Yeas 94 Nays 1
LAURIE JINKINS
Speaker of the House of
Representatives
Passed by the Senate April 16, 2025
Yeas 47 Nays 2
DENNY HECK
President of the Senate
CERTIFICATE
I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the
House of Representatives of the
State of Washington, do hereby
certify that the attached is HOUSE
BILL 1936 as passed by the House of
Representatives and the Senate on
the dates hereon set forth.
BERNARD DEAN
Chief Clerk
Approved May 15, 2025 1:49 PM FILED
May 19, 2025
BOB FERGUSON
Governor of the State of Washington
Secretary of State
State of Washington

AN ACT Relating to extending the expiration of certain school 1
employee postretirement employment restrictions; amending RCW 2
41.32.570, 41.32.802, 41.32.862, 41.35.060, and 41.40.037; and 3
declaring an emergency.4
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:5
Sec. 1. RCW 41.32.570 and 2022 c 110 s 1 are each amended to 6
read as follows:7
(1)(a) If a retiree enters employment with an employer sooner 8
than one calendar month after his or her accrual date, the retiree's 9
monthly retirement allowance will be reduced by five and one-half 10
percent for every seven hours worked during that month. This 11
reduction will be applied each month until the retiree remains absent 12
from employment with an employer for one full calendar month.13
(b) The benefit reduction provided in (a) of this subsection will 14
accrue for a maximum of one hundred forty hours per month. Any 15
monthly benefit reduction over one hundred percent will be applied to 16
the benefit the retiree is eligible to receive in subsequent months.17
(2) Any retired teacher or retired administrator who enters 18
service in any public educational institution in Washington state at 19
least one calendar month after his or her accrual date shall cease to 20
receive pension payments while engaged in such service, after the 21
HOUSE BILL 1936
AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed Legislature - 2025 Regular Session
State of Washington 69th Legislature 2025 Regular Session
By Representatives Chase, Leavitt, and Pollet
Read first time 02/11/25. Referred to Committee on Appropriations.
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retiree has rendered service for more than eight hundred sixty-seven 1
hours in a school year.2
(3)(a) Between March 23, 2022, and ((July 1, 2025)) January 1, 3
2030, a retiree who reenters employment more than one calendar month 4
after his or her accrual date, and who enters service in a school 5
district in a nonadministrative position shall continue to receive 6
pension payments while engaged in such service, until the retiree has 7
rendered service for more than 1,040 hours in a school year.8
(b) Between March 23, 2022, and ((July 1, 2025)) January 1, 2030, 9
a retiree that retired before January 1, 2022, and who enters service 10
in a second-class school district, as defined in RCW 28A.300.065, as 11
either a district superintendent or an in-school administrator shall 12
continue to receive pension payments while engaged in such service, 13
until the retiree has rendered service for more than 1,040 hours in a 14
school year.15
(4) The department shall collect and provide the state actuary 16
with information relevant to the use of this section for the select 17
committee on pension policy.18
(5) The legislature reserves the right to amend or repeal this 19
section in the future and no member or beneficiary has a contractual 20
right to be employed for more than five hundred twenty-five hours per 21
year without a reduction of his or her pension.22
Sec. 2. RCW 41.32.802 and 2023 c 410 s 3 are each amended to 23
read as follows:24
(1)(a) If a retiree enters employment with an employer sooner 25
than one calendar month after his or her accrual date, the retiree's 26
monthly retirement allowance will be reduced by five and one-half 27
percent for every seven hours worked during that month. This 28
reduction will be applied each month until the retiree remains absent 29
from employment with an employer for one full calendar month.30
(b) The benefit reduction provided in (a) of this subsection will 31
accrue for a maximum of one hundred forty hours per month. Any 32
benefit reduction over one hundred percent will be applied to the 33
benefit the retiree is eligible to receive in subsequent months.34
(2)(a) A retiree who has satisfied the break in employment 35
requirement of subsection (1) of this section, may work up to eight 36
hundred sixty-seven hours per calendar year in an eligible position, 37
as defined in RCW 41.32.010, 41.35.010, 41.37.010, or 41.40.010, or 38
as a firefighter or law enforcement officer, as defined in RCW 39
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41.26.030, or in a position covered by annuity and retirement income 1
plans offered by institutions of higher education pursuant to