BILL · 2023–24 SESSION
SB 5468: Firefighters/LEOFF
Ensuring that firefighters who accept promotional firefighter positions within a fire department remain members of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system.
Summary
- Expands the definition of firefighter, for inclusion in the Law Enforcement Officers' and Fire Fighters' Retirement System to include any person who is serving in a position that requires an experienced firefighter.
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Did not pass Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
- IntroducedJan 19, 2023
- Out of committeeFeb 24, 2023
- Passed Senatestopped here
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Kevin Van De Wege (D-24)
- Introduced
- January 19, 2023 in the Senate
- Last action
- January 8, 2024
- Companion bill
- HB 1279
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
AN ACT Relating to ensuring that firefighters who accept promotional firefighter positions within a fire department remain members of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system;
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Kevin Van De Wege (D-24)
6 co-sponsors (5 Democrats, 1 Republican)
Votes
No recorded floor votes.
History
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- Senate Rules "X" file.
- WM - Majority; do pass.
- Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- First reading, referred to Ways & Means.
SB 5468 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
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- SB 5468 (2019–20) Weights and measures program
- SB 5468 (2017–18) Nuclear energy/st. strategy
- SB 5468 (2015–16) Stay-at-work & self-insured
- SB 5468 (2013–14) "Tourist" / lodging tax
- SB 5468 (2011–12) Office of forecast councils
- SB 5468 (2009–10) Nonprofit housing orgs