That's how much Washington state plans to sweep from its police and firefighter pension fund to help plug a major budget shortfall, triggering a lawsuit filed April 30 by retired first responders who call it unconstitutional. The fund, which covers officers and firefighters hired before 1977, is currently 160 percent funded; the new law would terminate it and reinstate it at just 110 percent, leaving what critics say is too thin a cushion against market volatility.
