Publications

2025 Pension-Related Legislation

Posted on May 1, 2025

During the 2025 session, DRS tracked bills that affected retirement, including pensions and benefits.

Legislation marked with an asterisk (*) has been signed by the governor. Legislation marked with two asterisks is awaiting the governor’s decision.

House Bill	Senate Bill	Description
HB 1069	SB 5044	Allowing collective bargaining over contributions for certain supplemental retirement benefits.
HB 1156 *		Concerning volunteer firefighter participation in the state deferred compensation program.
	SB 5085	Concerning three of Washington state's closed retirement plans.
HB 1270 *		Concerning automatic deferred compensation enrollment for county, municipal, and other political subdivision employees.
HB 1292	SB 5113	Concerning cost-of-living adjustments for plan 1 retirees of the teachers' retirement system and public employees' retirement system.
HB 1312	SB 5114	Paying state retirement benefits until the end of the month in which the retiree or beneficiary dies.
HB 1349	SB 5306 *	For LEOFF Plan 2: Concerning the purchase of pension service credit for authorized leaves of absence.
HB 1474		Providing a benefit increase to certain retirees of the public employees' retirement system plan 1 and the teachers' retirement system plan 1.
HB 1510		Concerning participation in the public employees' retirement system judicial benefit multiplier program by commissioners of the supreme court and court of appeals.
HB 1642		Providing additional plan choice to members of the teachers' retirement system plans 2 and 3, the school employees' retirement system plans 2 and 3, and the public employees' retirement system plans 2 and 3.
	SB 5420	Ensuring access to state benefits and opportunities for veterans, uniformed service members, and military spouses.
HB 1790		Increasing defined benefit accrual for specified years of service in the state retirement systems.
	SB 5718	Providing members of the teachers' retirement system plan 3 and school employees' retirement system plan 3 that were never offered a choice of plan 2 the opportunity to irrevocably transfer to plan 2 for future service.
HB 1936 **		Extending the expiration of certain school employee postretirement employment restrictions.
HB 1988		Permitting individuals retired from the public employees' retirement system, the teachers' retirement system, and the school employees' retirement system additional opportunities to work for up to 1,040 hours per year while in receipt of pension benefits.
HB 2034		Concerning termination and restatement of plan 1 of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system.

*Signed into law.
**Pending action by the governor.

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