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LouisianaHB 182025 Regular SessionHouse

RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the funding of supplemental benefits for members of the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN +$5,714,000 FC SG EX)

Sponsored By: Timothy P. Kerner (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Retirement

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Extra $2,000 for eligible Louisiana firefighter retirees

The law requires a one-time $2,000 payment to eligible Louisiana Firefighters’ Retirement System retirees and nonretiree beneficiaries by August 1, 2025. Retirees qualify after receiving benefits for at least one year by June 30, 2025. Nonretiree beneficiaries qualify when their benefit period and the retiree’s total at least one year by that date. Payments cover at most 2,857 people and cost no more than $5.714 million. The Funding Deposit Account pays first; increased employer contributions cover any shortfall. The board can also use this account to fund future cost-of-living increases, but no increase is guaranteed. The board may set employer contribution rates above the minimum recommended rate, with all related surplus going into the account.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Timothy P. Kerner

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Jason Brian DeWitt

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 234 • No: 0

House vote • 6/3/2025

Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.

Yes: 97 • No: 0

Senate vote • 6/1/2025

Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 33 • No: 0

House vote • 5/5/2025

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 92 • No: 0

House vote • 4/24/2025

Reported favorably

Yes: 12 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 122.

    6/8/2025House

  2. Effective date: 06/08/2025.

    6/8/2025House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/5/2025House

  4. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

    6/4/2025House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/4/2025Senate

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.

    6/3/2025House

  7. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    6/2/2025House

  8. Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/2025.

    6/2/2025House

  9. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    6/1/2025Senate

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    5/29/2025Senate

  11. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/28/2025Senate

  12. Reported favorably.

    5/27/2025Senate

  13. Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.

    5/13/2025Senate

  14. Reported favorably.

    5/12/2025Senate

  15. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement.

    5/7/2025Senate

  16. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    5/6/2025Senate

  17. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/5/2025House

  18. Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    4/28/2025House

  19. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2025.

    4/28/2025House

  20. Reported favorably (12-0).

    4/24/2025House

  21. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement.

    4/14/2025House

  22. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/28/2025.

    2/28/2025House

  23. Prefiled.

    2/25/2025House

  24. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement.

    2/25/2025House

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