Retired Public Employees Council of WA Working to protect and enhance the pension and health care benefits of Washington retired state, county and local government employees
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| Item | Bill Number | Description | Status | RPEC Postion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HB 1390/ SB 5400 | Providing a one-time 3% increase, capped at $62.50 per month to PERS/TRS Plan 1 members | Passed Legislature, Delivered to Governor | Support |
| 2 | SB 5601 | Concerning health care benefit management | Passed Legislature, Delivered to Governor | Support |
| 3 | SB 6319 | Concerning administration of the senior property tax exemption program | Passed Legislature, Delivered to Governor | Support |
| 4 | SB 5887 | Concerning health carrier requirements for prior authorization standards | Passed Legislature, Delivered to Governor | Support |
| 5 | HB 1608 | Protecting patient care | Passed Legislature, Delivered to Governor | Support |
| 6 | HB 2662 | Reducing the total cost of insulin | Passed Legislature, Delivered to Governor | Support |
| 7 | SB 6088 | Establishing a prescription drug affordability board | Passed Legislature, Delivered to Governor | Support |
| 8 | HB 2189 | Including specified competency restoration workers at department of social and health services institutional and residential sites in the public safety employees retirement system | Passed Legislature, Delivered to Governor | Support |
| 9 | SB 6404 | Adopting prior authorization and appropriate use criteria in patient care | Passed Legislature, Delivered to Governor | Support |
| 10 | SB 6359 | Creating regulation exemptions for rural health clinics providing services in a designated home health shortage area | Passed Legislature, Delivered to Governor | Support |
| 11 | SB 6383/ HB 2341 | Concerning the retirement strategy funds in the plan 3 and the deferred compensation programs | Passed Legislature, Delivered to Governor | Support |
| 12 | HB 1888 | Protecting employee information from public disclosure | Passed Legislature, Delivered to Governor | Support |
| 13 | SB 6499 | Concerning the confidentiality of retirement system files and records relating to health information | Passed Legislature, Delivered to Governor | Support |
| 14 | SB 6087 | Imposing cost-sharing requirements for coverage of insulin products | Passed Legislature, Delivered to Governor | Support |
| 15 | SB 6074/ HB 2193 | Reauthorizing and expanding the financial fraud and identity theft crimes investigation and prosecution program | Passed Legislature, Delivered to Governor | Support |
| 16 | HB 1085/ SB 5469 | Requiring the State to cover at least 50% of the monthly premium for Medicare-eligible retirees under PEBB | Introduced, Referred to House Appropriations, Unlikely to Advance / Senate Ways & Means, Did not Advance | Support |
| 17 | HB 1220/ SB 5275 | Adding a nonvoting representative from the office of the insurance commissioner to the public employees' benefits board. | Introduced, Referred to House Rules, Unlikely to Advance / Senate Rules, Did not Advance | Support |
| 18 | SB 6113 | Creating a central insulin purchasing program | Introduced, Passed Senate, Passed House Appropriations, Referred to Rules, Did not Advance | Support |
| 19 | SB 6275 | Increasing patient access rights to timely and appropriate postacute care | Introduced, Passed Senate, Passed House Appropriations, Referred to Rules, Did not Advance | Support |
| 20 | SB 6358 | Requiring medicaid managed care organizations to provide reimbursement of health care services provided by substitute providers | Introduced, Passed Senate, Passed House Appropriations, Referred to Rules, Did not Advance | Support |
| 21 | SB 6050/ HB 2209 | Concerning long term care insurance guaranty fund | Introduced, Passed Senate, Passed House Appropriations, Referred to Rules, Did not Advance | Support |
| 22 | HB 2036 | Concerning health system transparency | Did not Advance | Support |
| 23 | SB 5392/ HB 1317 | Establishing the profession of dental therapist | Did not Advance | Support |
| 24 | SB 6250/ HB 2328 | Concerning nursing facilities | Did not Advance | Support |
| 25 | SB 6098 | Concerning insurance coverage of prosthetics and orthotics. | Did not Advance | Support |
| 26 | SB 5335/ HB 1414 | Paying state retirement benefits until the end of the month in which the retiree or beneficiary dies | Did not Advance | Support |
| 27 | SB 5541 | Creating a state revenue reform task force. | Did not Advance | Support |
| 28 | SB 5184 | Concerning prescription coverage and the use of nonresident pharmacies. | Did not Advance | Support |
| 29 | SB 6666 | Protecting employee information from public disclosure | Did not Advance | Support |
| 30 | SB 6594 | Concerning health system transparency | Did not Advance | Support |
| 31 | HB 1172/ SB 5314 | Assisting Washington families by improving the fairness of the state's tax system by enacting a capital gains tax and providing property tax relief | Did not Advance | Support |
| 32 | SB 6199 | Adjusting by inflation the qualifying income thresholds for purposes of the senior citizen and service-connected disabled veterans property tax exemption program | Did not Advance | Support |
| 33 | SB 5625 | Allowing medicare supplemental insurance premiums to be deducted from the calculation of disposable income for the purpose of qualifying for senior property tax programs | Did not Advance | Support |
| 34 | SB 6310 | Concerning a report of employers with employees receiving certain public assistance programs | Did not Advance | Support |
| 35 | SB 6110 | Importing prescription drugs from Canada | Did not Advance | Support |
| 36 | SB 6111 | Creating a pharmacy tourism program | Did not Advance | Support |
| 37 | SB 6431 | Exempting personal demographic details of state employees from public disclosure | Did not Advance | Support |
| 38 | SB 6125 | Concerning postretirement work in an elected city or county council position | Did not Advance | Watch |
| 39 | HB 2533 | Concerning disability benefits in the public safety employees' retirement system | Did not Advance | Support |
| 40 | SB 6165 | Providing a one-time 1.5% increase, capped at $22 per month to PERS/TRS Plan 1 members | Did not Advance | Watch |
| 41 | HB 1132/ SB 5178 | Concerning early retirement options for members of the teachers' retirement system and school employees' retirement system plans 2 and 3 | Did not Advance | Watch |
| 42 | SB 6662 | Providing retirement benefits at earlier ages in the plans 2 and 3 of the public employees' retirement system, the teachers' retirement system, and the school employees' retirement system | Did not Advance | Watch |
| 43 | SB 6337 | Concerning early retirement reduction factors for certain members of the teachers retirement system and the public safety employees retirement system | Did not Advance | Watch |
| 44 | HB 1765 | Concerning medical deductions for calculating disposable income | Did not Advance | Support |
| 45 | HB 2734 | Creating pathways to recovery from addiction by eliminating a tax preference for the warehousing of opioids and other drugs | Did not Advance | Support |
| 46 | SB 5781 | Addressing health insurance mandates in the individual and small group markets | Did not Advance | Oppose |
