H-2861.1
HOUSE BILL 2441
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2026 Regular Session
By Representatives Low, Bronoske, Bergquist, and Davis
Read first time 01/13/26. Referred to Committee on Appropriations.
AN ACT Relating to medical insurance premium reimbursements for surviving spouses of line of duty deaths; amending RCW 41.26.510 ; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 41.26.510 and 2016 c 115 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) Except as provided in RCW 11.07.010 , if a member or a vested member who has not completed at least ten years of service dies, the amount of the accumulated contributions standing to such member's credit in the retirement system at the time of such member's death, less any amount identified as owing to an obligee upon withdrawal of accumulated contributions pursuant to a court order filed under RCW 41.50.670 , shall be paid to the member's estate, or such person or persons, trust, or organization as the member shall have nominated by written designation duly executed and filed with the department. If there be no such designated person or persons still living at the time of the member's death, such member's accumulated contributions standing to such member's credit in the retirement system, less any amount identified as owing to an obligee upon withdrawal of accumulated contributions pursuant to a court order filed under RCW 41.50.670 , shall be paid to the member's surviving spouse or domestic partner as if in fact such spouse or domestic partner had been nominated by written designation, or if there be no such surviving spouse or domestic partner, then to such member's legal representatives.