Retirement and Pensions: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 37 bills from the 2025-26 session under Retirement and Pensions. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1156 · Deferred compensation, volunteer firefighter participation
- HB 1270 · Deferred compensation, local plans
- HB 1292 · PERS, plan1, cost of living increase
- HB 1312 · Benefits, extending benefits to end of month recipient dies
- HB 1330 · Washington employees and retirees benefits board, creating by consolidating PEBB and SEBB
- HB 1349 · LEOFF, plan2, contribution calculations in cases of leave of absence
- HB 1467 · Employer contributions, modifying rates for various plans
- HB 1474 · PERS, plan 1, benefit increase
- HB 1510 · PERS, plan 1 and 2, judges participation
- HB 1642 · TRS, SERS, and PERS, allowing choice between plan 3 and plan 2
- HB 1790 · PERS, SERS, and TRS, plan 2 and 3, increasing retirement allowance per year of service
- HB 1798 · Firefighters' pension boards, allowing designees to be appointed for county treasurers and auditors
- HB 1936 · PERS, TRS, and SERS, extending postretirement employment expiration dates
- HB 1988 · PERS, TRS, and SERS, allowing work while receiving benefits
- HB 2034 · LEOFF, plan 1, terminating and restating
- HB 2124 · Threshold for lump sum payment instead of monthly retirement benefit for public employees
- HB 2125 · Retirement trust fund expenses
- HB 2136 · TRS plan1 monthly benefit increase
- HB 2414 · Wildland or aviation firefighters as firefighters and law enforcement for retirement systems
- HB 2423 · Deadlines for distribution requests from financial institutions
- HB 2482 · LEOFF plan 2 members serving as chiefs of police in small departments
- HB 2561 · LEOFF plan 2, basic salary to include compensation that a member receives for being in standby status
- HB 2569 · LEOFF plan2 eligibility date clarification
- SB 5085 · Legacy retirement system, creating by merging plan 1 of TRS, PERS, and LEOFF to address funding
- SB 5086 · Washington employees and retirees benefits board, creating by consolidating PEBB and SEBB
- SB 5113 · PERS, plan1, cost of living increase
- SB 5114 · Benefits, extending benefits to end of month recipient dies
- SB 5306 · LEOFF, plan2, contribution calculations in cases of leave of absence
- SB 5357 · Employer contributions, modifying rates for various plans
- SB 5478 · Public employees benefits board (PEBB), evaluating other benefits
- SB 5718 · TRS and SERS pan 3, option to transfer to plan 2
- SB 5738 · PERS, TRS, and SERS, allowing work while receiving benefits
- SB 5834 · Retirement trust fund expenses
- SB 5835 · Threshold for lump sum payment instead of monthly retirement benefit for public employees
- SB 5862 · TRS 1 and PERS 1 COLA adjustment
- SB 6073 · Wildland or aviation firefighters as firefighters and law enforcement for retirement systems
- SB 6324 · LEOFF plan 2, basic salary to include compensation that a member receives for being in standby status
All topics · All 2025-26 Washington State bills
Source: the Washington State Legislature’s Topical Index. OlympiaTrack is an independent bill-tracking service and is not affiliated with the Legislature.