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LouisianaHB 212026 Regular SessionHouse

RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL EMP: Provides relative to participation in the Municipal Employees' Retirement System (EN NO IMPACT APV)

Sponsored By: Brian Leonard Glorioso (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Retirement

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

4 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.

Extra pension payments for elected service

Plan A retirement benefits equal 3% of final compensation multiplied by years of service credited toward retirement. Plan B uses 2% instead. Members of either plan who held elected office with a participating employer get an extra annuity payment. It equals 0.5% for each year of that elected service. The text does not identify the amount used to calculate this extra percentage, so its dollar value is unclear.

Municipal workers gain a limited plan option

Participating employers whose employees have Social Security coverage and belong to Plan B can choose Plan A. The employer must notify the retirement system in writing. Existing Plan B service and contributions do not transfer to Plan A. After the change takes effect, employees and employers must pay the required Plan A contributions. The text does not state those contribution rates.

Broader municipal pension coverage for workers

Louisiana's Municipal Employees' Retirement System now includes employers covered by R.S. 11:1751.2 in its participating-employer definition. Elected officials not subject to R.S. 11:164 are presumed to be employees for retirement-system purposes. That presumption is displaced when the employer's governing authority confirms a contrary statement about the official's hours.

Municipal pension protections and refund limits

The law preserves state and municipal tax exemptions and protections against seizure for pension benefits, contribution returns, and system funds. Seizure protections remain subject to R.S. 11:292, and benefits paid are exempt from state income tax. Refunds to members or their estates are not required until 30 days after employment ends and all contributions are submitted. When employers pay employee contributions for earlier service credit, those funds can be assigned to the employer. That assignment ends when the employee repays the contributions or the employer sends the retirement board a written release.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Brian Leonard Glorioso

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 138 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/13/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 34 • No: 0

House vote • 4/15/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 93 • No: 0

House vote • 4/9/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 11 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 278.

    5/22/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/22/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/19/2026House

  4. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/18/2026House

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

    5/18/2026House

  6. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/18/2026Senate

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/13/2026Senate

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

    5/7/2026Senate

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

    5/6/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/5/2026Senate

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

    4/21/2026Senate

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

    4/20/2026Senate

  13. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/15/2026House

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2026.

    4/14/2026House

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

    4/13/2026House

  16. Reported with amendments (11-0).

    4/9/2026House

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

    3/24/2026House

  18. Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

    3/23/2026House

  19. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/23/2026.

    1/23/2026House

  20. Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date.

    1/20/2026House

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