RCW 41.35.033
Membership—Service credit—Substitute employees—Rules.
(1) A substitute employee who works five or more months of seventy or more hours for which earnable compensation is paid in a school year may apply to the department to establish membership after the end of the school year during which the work was performed. The application must:
(a) Include a list of the employers the substitute employee has worked for;
(b) Include proof of hours worked and compensation earned; and
(c) Be made prior to retirement.
(2) Substitute employees who are members may apply to the department to receive service after the end of the last day of instruction of the school year during which the service was performed. The application must:
(a) Include a list of the employers the substitute employee has worked for;
(b) Include proof of hours worked and compensation earned; and
(c) Be made prior to retirement.
(3) If the department accepts the substitute employee's application for service credit, the substitute employee may obtain service credit by paying the required contribution to the retirement system. The employer must pay the required employer contribution upon notice from the department that the substitute employee has made contributions under this section.
(4) The department shall charge interest prospectively on employee contributions that are submitted under this section more than six months after the end of the school year, as defined in *RCW 28A.150.040, for which the substitute employee is seeking service credit. The interest rate charged to the employee shall take into account interest lost on employer contributions delayed for more than six months after the end of the school year.
(5) Each employer shall quarterly notify each substitute employee it has employed during the school year of the number of hours worked by, and the compensation paid to, the substitute employee.
(6) If a substitute employee, as defined in RCW 41.35.010(38), applies to the department under this section for credit for earnable compensation earned from an employer, the substitute employee must make contributions for all periods of service for that employer.
(7) The department shall adopt rules implementing this section.
[ 2003 c 157 § 3.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: RCW 28A.150.040 was repealed by 2009 c 548 § 710, effective September 1, 2011.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions
Chapter 41.35 - Washington School Employees' Retirement System.
41.35.015 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
41.35.020 - System created—Administration.
41.35.033 - Membership—Service credit—Substitute employees—Rules.
41.35.035 - Membership in system—Charter school employers and employees.
41.35.040 - Nonelective position held for at least nine months—Deemed to be eligible position, when.
41.35.070 - Duty disability retirement recipients—Continued service credit.
41.35.080 - Members agree to deductions.
41.35.090 - Employer's contribution—Computation—Billing.
41.35.110 - Disability retirement—Criminal conduct.
41.35.115 - Death benefit—Course of employment—Occupational disease or infection.
41.35.120 - False statements—Penalty.
41.35.130 - Transfer of service credit from statewide city employees' retirement system.
41.35.140 - Hearing prior to appeal required—Notice.
41.35.150 - Hearing prior to appeal required—Conduct of hearing.
41.35.160 - Judicial review in accordance with administrative procedure act.
41.35.170 - Appeal—No bond required.
41.35.180 - Service credit—Computation.
41.35.1801 - Prior service—One-half service credit.
41.35.183 - Purchase of additional service credit—Costs—Rules.
41.35.190 - Effect of certain accumulated vacation leave on retirement benefits.
41.35.200 - Benefit calculation—Limitation.
41.35.210 - Post-retirement cost-of-living.
41.35.220 - Options for payment of retirement allowances—Court-approved property settlement.
41.35.235 - Purchase of life annuity benefit.
41.35.399 - Provisions applicable to plan 2 and plan 3.
41.35.400 - Computation of retirement allowance.
41.35.410 - Lump sum retirement allowance—Reentry—Reinstatement of service.
41.35.420 - Retirement eligibility.
41.35.423 - Member with terminal illness—Removal from system.
41.35.430 - Employer and member contribution rates.
41.35.440 - Earned disability allowance—Disposition upon death of recipient.
41.35.450 - Application for and effective date of retirement allowances.
41.35.470 - Leaves of absence, military service.
41.35.480 - Vested membership.
41.35.490 - Refund of contributions.
41.35.510 - Transfer to plan 3—Irrevocable option.
41.35.599 - Provisions applicable to plan 2.
41.35.600 - Provisions applicable to plan 3—Plan 3 elements.
41.35.610 - Choice of membership in plan 2 or plan 3.
41.35.612 - Right to waive benefit—Irrevocable choice.
41.35.620 - Computation of retirement allowance.
41.35.630 - Additional payment.
41.35.640 - Application for and effective date of retirement allowances.
41.35.650 - Leaves of absence, military service.
41.35.660 - Purchased service credit—Allocation.
41.35.670 - Lump sum payments—Reentry.
41.35.680 - Retirement eligibility.
41.35.683 - Member with terminal illness—Removal from system.
41.35.690 - Earned disability allowance—Disposition upon death of recipient.
41.35.700 - Restored, purchased service credit under plan 2—Transfer to plan 3.
41.35.720 - Employer contribution rates.
41.35.900 - Benefits not contractual right until September 1, 2000.