Washington Education Ass'n v. Department of Retirement Systems

fl The legal issue presented here is whether the legislature’s 2007 repeal of gain sharing — a pension enhancement provided in years of extraordinary investment return — unconstitutionally impairs the con*217tract between the State and its employees. The companion case, Washington Education Ass’n v. Department of Retirement Systems, 181 Wn.2d 233, 332 P.3d 439 (2014) (WEA I), presents the same issue, and we reach the same conclusion. As in the companion case, we hold that the legislature reserved its right to repeal a benefit in the original enactment of that benefit and the enactment did not…