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type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing the transfer of public employees' retirement system service credit to the public safety employees' retirement system due to differing definitions of full-time."
description: "Authorizing the transfer of public employees' retirement system service credit to the public safety employees' retirement system due to differing definitions of full-time."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "HB 1709"
citation: "Washington HB 1709 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chandler"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-26"
last_action: "2017-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5075d0ed-3cd1-4313-8127-f2e95d127e3e"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1709&year=2017"
source_hash: "e65f79ff34fc767c5f525ae3e6559e2be6095f757b7468425476c742583d4876"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wa"]
---
# Washington HB 1709 (2017-2018) — Authorizing the transfer of public employees' retirement system service credit to the public safety employees' retirement system due to differing definitions of full-time.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2017-18/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1709.htm)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#13) — **490** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage (#33) — **980** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Chandler — primary (person)
- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
- Stanford — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-26** First reading, referred to Appropriations (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). `reading-1`
- **2017-02-15** APP - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-02-17** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2017-02-28** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2017-03-01** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-03-01** Third reading, passed; yeas, 98; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2017-03-03** First reading, referred to Ways & Means. `reading-1`
- **2017-03-30** WM - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-04-03** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2017-04-06** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2017-04-12** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-04-12** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2017-04-14** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2017-04-17** President signed. `passage`
- **2017-04-18** Delivered to Governor.
- **2017-04-27** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-27** Chapter 143, 2017 Laws. `became-law`
- **2017-04-27** Effective date 7/23/2017. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5075d0ed-3cd1-4313-8127-f2e95d127e3e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).