HB 15 Louisiana House · 2024 Regular Session

RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides for the reemployment of retired police officers of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)

This bill updates the rules for retired police officers in Louisiana's Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System regarding their ability to return to work. It clarifies that certain full-time police positions do not count as regular employment for retirement purposes and extends the deadline for officers to rejoin the workforce without losing their pension benefits. Specifically, retirees who have at least twenty-five years of service or twenty years and are over fifty-five can return to work by July 1, 2028, without having their retirement benefits suspended. The legislation also adjusts the effective date for these provisions to apply to retirees who left the force on or before January 1, 2024.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
House Passage
May 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
Jun 2024
Introduced Jan 19, 2024 Signed Jun 10, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 20, 2024 · House May 28, 2024

How they voted

35–0
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 38
May 20, 2024
D Democratic12
11 Yea 1
91% Yea
R Republican26
24 Yea 2
92% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
25
Key actions
7
Committee
8
May 28, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
lower
May 20, 2024
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 14, 2024
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 13, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 30, 2024
Committee
Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
upper
Apr 30, 2024
Upper · Passed
Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
upper
Apr 29, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported with amendments.
upper
Apr 17, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 11, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (10-0).
lower
Mar 11, 2024
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement.
lower
Jan 19, 2024
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
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Photo of Bryan Fontenot
Bryan Fontenot
RRepublican
LA
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