The bill amends RCW 41.40.023 to clarify the membership eligibility criteria for the public employees' retirement system, specifically addressing port workers who are participants in certain retirement plans. It introduces new provisions that allow port district employees who are part of a federal railroad retirement plan or a union-sponsored defined benefit pension plan, to be explicitly excluded from membership in the public employees' retirement system during any period when their port district is making employer contributions to those plans.

Additionally, the bill outlines that these port workers will not be eligible for membership in the retirement system for any time that the port district is contributing to the specified retirement plans. This change aims to ensure that port workers who are already covered by other retirement systems do not receive overlapping benefits from the public employees' retirement system, thereby streamlining the retirement options available to them.

Statutes affected:
Original bill: 41.40.023