WSR 17-01-134
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE
[Filed December 20, 2016, 2:33 p.m.]
NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OPINION
WASHINGTON ATTORNEY GENERAL
The Washington attorney general issues formal published opinions in response to requests by the heads of state agencies, state legislators, and county prosecuting attorneys. When it appears that individuals outside the attorney general's office (AGO) have information or expertise that will assist in the preparation of a particular opinion, a summary of that opinion request will be published in the state register. If you are interested in commenting on a request listed in this volume of the register, you should notify the attorney general's office of your interest by January 11, 2017. This is not the due date by which comments must be received. However, if you do not notify the attorney general's office of your interest in commenting on an opinion request by this date, the opinion may be issued before your comments have been received. You may notify the attorney general's office of your intention to comment by email to jeff.even@atg.wa.gov or by writing to the Office of the Attorney General, Solicitor General Division, Attention Jeff Even, Deputy Solicitor General, P.O. Box 40100, Olympia, WA 98504-0100. When you notify the office of your intention to comment, you may be provided with a copy of the opinion request in which you are interested, information about the attorney general's opinion process, information on how to submit your comments, and a due date by which your comments must be received to ensure that they are fully considered.
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The attorney general's office seeks public input on the following opinion request(s):
Opinion Docket No. 16-12-01
Request by Steve Conway, Senator, District 29
QUESTION:
Does the invocation of survivor rights for a designated spouse under RCW 41.18.042 alone, and not under RCW 41.26.164, mean that the payment of survivor rights to the decedent firefighter's surviving spouse is the full benefit to which that surviving spouse is entitled under RCW 41.18 or is the benefit that which is mandated by RCW 4.1.18 minus the benefit that would have been offset under RCW 41.26 had the decedent firefighter invoked the 2002 or 2005 RCW 41.26 statutes?
Reviser's note: The typographical error in the above section occurred in the copy filed by the agency and appears in the Register pursuant to the requirements of RCW 34.08.040.