2005 Washington Revised Code RCW 41.04.600: Dependent care — Salary reduction plan — Purpose.

(1) The state of Washington may enter into salary reduction agreements with employees pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. Sec. 125 for the purpose of making it possible for employees to select on a "before-tax basis" certain taxable and nontaxable benefits pursuant to 26 U.S.C. Sec. 125. The purpose of the salary reduction plan established in this chapter is to attract and retain individuals in governmental service by permitting them to enter into agreements with the state to provide for benefits pursuant to 26 U.S.C. Sec. 129.

     (2) Nothing in the salary reduction plan constitutes an employment agreement between the participant and the state, and nothing contained in the participant's salary reduction agreement, the plan, or RCW 41.04.605 through 41.04.645 gives a participant any right to be retained in state employment.

[1987 c 475 § 1.]

Severability -- 1987 c 475: "If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [1987 c 475 § 13.]