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LouisianaHB 192025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the administration and participation in the Deferred Retirement Option Plan for the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE APV)

Sponsored By: Timothy P. Kerner (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Retirement

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.

Firefighters gain longer retirement savings plan options

Firefighters’ Retirement System members with at least 28 years of service credit can stay in DROP for 5 years instead of 3. DROP is the Deferred Retirement Option Plan. The law also creates a self-directed investment account option for DROP participants. The provided material does not list investment choices, fees, or expected returns.

Working firefighter retirees gain disability benefit protections

The law ends an earnings-based benefit cut for Firefighters’ Retirement System disability retirees age 62 or older. The removed rule applied to retirees who worked and earned above a set amount. These retirees also no longer need to send the board the related annual earnings statement. The provided material does not give the earnings threshold or the size of the former cut.

Firefighter employers face new pension payment rules

Beginning April 1, 2026, employers must calculate and pay retirement contributions on salaries of members in the Deferred Retirement Option Plan. Employers can also be charged all actuarial costs caused by incorrect employee pay reports or incorrect retirement contribution payments. The law also makes administrative changes to refunds of employee contributions; the provided material does not detail those changes. The five-year fiscal outlook projects little or no material change in state or local government costs.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Timothy P. Kerner

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Cameron Henry

    Republican • Senate

  • Dodie Horton

    Republican • House

  • Edward J. Price

    Democratic • Senate

  • Gary Carter

    Democratic • Senate

  • Jason Brian DeWitt

    Republican • House

  • Katrina R. Jackson-Andrews

    Democratic • Senate

  • Mike Johnson

    Republican • House

  • Pat Moore

    Democratic • House

  • Patrick Connick

    Republican • Senate

  • Patrick McMath

    Republican • Senate

  • Regina Barrow

    Democratic • Senate

  • Sylvia Elaine Taylor

    Democratic • House

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 233 • No: 0

House vote • 6/10/2025

Read by title, roll called, yeas 90, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.

Yes: 90 • No: 0

Senate vote • 6/8/2025

Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 37 • No: 0

House vote • 5/5/2025

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 95 • No: 0

House vote • 4/24/2025

Reported favorably

Yes: 11 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 344.

    6/20/2025House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2025.

    6/20/2025House

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/12/2025Senate

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/12/2025House

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

    6/11/2025House

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 90, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.

    6/10/2025House

  7. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    6/9/2025House

  8. Scheduled for concurrence on 06/10/2025.

    6/9/2025House

  9. Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.

    6/8/2025Senate

  10. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    6/8/2025Senate

  11. Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.

    5/28/2025Senate

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

    5/14/2025Senate

  13. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/13/2025Senate

  14. Reported with amendments.

    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 95, 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 (11-0).

    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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