RCW 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 associate position and who is employed in such a position on or after June 7, 1984, has the following options:
(a) To remain a member of the public employees' retirement system notwithstanding the provisions of RCW 41.32.240 or 41.32.780; or
(b) To irrevocably elect to join the retirement system under this chapter and to receive service credit for previous periods of employment in any position included under RCW 41.32.010. This service credit and corresponding employee contribution shall be computed as though the person had then been a member of the retirement system under this chapter. All employee contributions credited to a member under chapter 41.40 RCW for service now to be credited to the retirement system under this chapter shall be transferred to the system and the member shall not receive any credit nor enjoy any rights under chapter 41.40 RCW for those periods of service. The member shall pay any difference between the employee contributions made under chapter 41.40 RCW and transferred under this subsection and what would have been required under this chapter, including interest as set by the director. The member shall be given until July 1, 1989, to make the irrevocable election permitted under this section. The election shall be made by submitting written notification as required by the department requesting credit under this section and by remitting any necessary proof of service or payments within the time set by the department.
Any person, not employed as an educational staff associate on June 7, 1984, may, before June 30 of the fifth school year after that person's return to employment as a teacher, request and establish membership and credit under this subsection.
[ 1995 c 239 § 103; 1992 c 212 § 17; 1991 c 35 § 39; 1984 c 256 § 2. Formerly RCW 41.32.242.]
NOTES:
Intent—Purpose—1995 c 239: See note following RCW 41.32.831.
Effective date—Part and subchapter headings not law—1995 c 239: See notes following RCW 41.32.005.
Intent—1991 c 35: See note following RCW 41.26.005.
Benefits not contractual right until date specified: RCW 41.34.100.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions
Chapter 41.32 - Teachers' Retirement.
41.32.005 - Provisions applicable to "plan 1," "plan 2," and "plan 3."
41.32.012 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
41.32.013 - Substitute teachers—Application for service credit—Procedures.
41.32.025 - Department's power to determine eligibility.
41.32.032 - Membership in system—Service credit of educational staff associates.
41.32.033 - Membership in system—Charter school employers and employees.
41.32.035 - Employer contribution rates—Computation and payment.
41.32.042 - Validity of deductions—Interest.
41.32.044 - Retired teacher may reenter system—Benefit limitations.
41.32.053 - Death benefit—Course of employment—Occupational disease or infection.
41.32.054 - Disability retirement—Criminal conduct.
41.32.055 - Falsification—Penalty.
41.32.062 - Effect of certain accumulated vacation leave on retirement benefits.
41.32.063 - Benefit calculation—Limitation.
41.32.064 - Establishing, restoring service credit.
41.32.0641 - Disabled in the line of duty—Continuation of service credit—Conditions.
41.32.066 - Purchase of additional service credit—Costs—Rules.
41.32.067 - Purchase of additional benefits—Conditions.
41.32.215 - Provisions applicable to plan 1.
41.32.240 - Membership in system.
41.32.260 - Credit for military service or as state legislator.
41.32.263 - State legislators and state officials eligible for retirement benefits.
41.32.270 - Teaching service, how credited.
41.32.300 - Limitation on credit for out-of-state service.
41.32.310 - Time limit for claiming service credit—Payments.
41.32.330 - Credit for professional preparation subsequent to becoming teacher.
41.32.340 - Creditable service, what to consist of.
41.32.345 - "Earnable compensation" defined for certain part-time employees—Adoption of rules.
41.32.350 - Purchase of additional annuity—Member contribution rate.
41.32.380 - Source of pension reserve—Contributions.
41.32.390 - Contributions for prior service credits.
41.32.470 - Eligibility for retirement allowance.
41.32.480 - Qualifications for retirement.
41.32.4872 - Permanent increase for specified beneficiaries age seventy or over.
41.32.489 - Retirement allowance—Annual increases restricted after July 1, 2010—Eligibility.
41.32.4931 - Additional special pension for former members not receiving social security.
41.32.4945 - Limitation as to earnable compensation of member as member of the legislature.
41.32.497 - Retirement allowance for members entering system before April 25, 1973—Election.
41.32.4986 - Members with thirty years of service—Irrevocable election.
41.32.4991 - Permanent retirement allowance adjustment.
41.32.4992 - Monthly benefit increase.
41.32.500 - Termination of membership.
41.32.510 - Payment on withdrawal—Reentry.
41.32.530 - Options available—Retirement allowance adjustment—Court-approved property settlement.
41.32.540 - Disability allowance—Temporary.
41.32.550 - Options and allowances on report that disability will be permanent—Reexamination.
41.32.555 - Persons with annual half-time contracts—Eligibility for benefits under RCW 41.32.550.
41.32.570 - Postretirement employment—Reduction or suspension of pension payments.
41.32.584 - Additional benefit for justices or judges—One-time irrevocable election.
41.32.587 - Justices or judges retirement allowance—In lieu of RCW 41.32.498.
41.32.755 - Provisions applicable to plan 2.
41.32.760 - Computation of the retirement allowance.
41.32.762 - Lump sum retirement allowance—Reentry—Conditions for reinstatement of service.
41.32.765 - Retirement for service.
41.32.768 - Member with terminal illness—Removal from system.
41.32.770 - Post-retirement cost-of-living.
41.32.780 - Teachers required to be members.
41.32.790 - Earned disability allowance—Eligibility—Disposition upon death of recipient.
41.32.795 - Application for and effective date of retirement allowances.
41.32.812 - Service credit for half-time employment from October 1, 1977, through December 31, 1986.
41.32.813 - One-time purchase of service credit—Conditions—Payment—Rules.
41.32.815 - Vested membership.
41.32.817 - Transfer to plan 3—Irrevocable option.
41.32.820 - Refund of contributions on termination.
41.32.831 - Provisions applicable to plan 3—Plan 3 elements.
41.32.835 - Choice of membership in plan 2 or plan 3.
41.32.837 - Right to waive benefit—Irrevocable choice.
41.32.840 - Computation of the retirement allowance.
41.32.8401 - Additional payment.
41.32.845 - Postretirement cost-of-living allowance.
41.32.851 - Options for payment of retirement allowances—Court-approved property settlement.
41.32.855 - Application for and effective date of retirement allowances.
41.32.867 - Purchased service credit—Allocation.
41.32.868 - One-time purchase of service credit—Conditions—Payment—Rules.
41.32.870 - Lump sum payments—Reentry.
41.32.875 - Retirement eligibility.
41.32.878 - Member with terminal illness—Removal from system.
41.32.880 - Earned disability allowance—Eligibility—Disposition upon death of recipient.
41.32.892 - Restored, purchased service credit under plan 2—Transfer to plan 3.