2024 Pension-Related Legislation
Posted on April 30, 2024
During the 2024 session, DRS tracked bills that affected retirement, including pensions and benefits. Here are bills tracked, including summary descriptions from legislative reports:
*Bills marked with an asterisk have passed.
| House Bill | Senate Bill | Description |
|---|---|---|
| HB 1413 | SB 5424* | Concerning flexible work for general and limited authority Washington peace officers. |
| HB 1949 | SB 6106* | Including in the public safety employees' retirement system specified competency restoration workers at department of social and health services institutional and residential sites that serve civilly committed residents or serve patients under not guilty by reason of insanity findings. |
| HB 1985* | Providing a benefit increase to certain retirees of the public employees' retirement system plan 1 and the teachers' retirement system plan 1. | |
| HB 2013 | Paying state retirement benefits until the end of the month in which the retiree or beneficiary dies. | |
| HB 2014* | SB 5871 | Concerning the definition of veteran and restoring honor to veterans. |
| HB 2316 | SB 5881* | Concerning membership in the public employees' retirement system for certain part-time bus drivers employed full-time by the federal government. |
| HB 2337 | SB 6198 | Concerning employees of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' plan 2 retirement board. |
| HB 2338 | SB 6197* | Concerning the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system plan 2. |
| HB 2357* | Establishing a state patrol longevity bonus. | |
| HB 2471 | Increasing defined benefit accrual for specified years of service in the state retirement systems. | |
| HB 2481* | Waiving health benefit premiums in the public employees' benefits board. | |
| SB 6247 | Concerning public employees' retirement system plan 2 service credit for officers of labor organizations. | |
| SB 6315 | Concerning benefits available to retirees of the state's retirement systems. |
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