PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS
Subject of Possible Rule Making: To amend chapter 491-02 WAC to adopt new actuarial tables for use in calculating joint survivors' option for pensions.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 41.24.290(2).
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: 1999 legislation allowing a pop-up provision for the joint survivor option necessitates recalculation of actuarial tables.
Process for Developing New Rule: Agency study; and calculation by the Office of the State Actuary.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Board for Volunteer Firefighters, P.O. Box 114, 605 East 11th Avenue #112, Olympia, WA 98507, phone (360) 753-7318, toll free (877) 753-7318, fax (360) 586-1987.
June 22, 1999
Joseph H. Faubion
Executive Secretary