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LouisianaHB 222026 Regular SessionHouse

RETIREMENT/CLERKS COURT: Provides relative to the Clerks' of Court Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)

Sponsored By: Tony Bacala (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Retirement

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Optional benefit increases for court retirees

The Clerks' of Court retirement board can grant cost-of-living increases by majority vote, using its funding deposit account. Benefits must have been paid on the retiree's or member's record for at least one full calendar year. The increase can reach 3% of the current benefit. An alternative monthly increase uses credited service and time since retirement or death, with no greater total actuarial value. Eligible retirees, beneficiaries, and survivors age 65 or older can also receive up to 2%, including alongside another increase. Awards are not automatic and depend on available funding and required actuarial approvals. The system generally needs a 100% funded ratio. Below that, it needs at least 90% with no increase in the prior fiscal year; 80% with none in the prior two; or 70% with none in the prior three. The funded ratio compares actuarial assets with pension liabilities, after subtracting the increase's actuarial value from assets. The law also uses a target-ratio formula tied to 1986 funding, adjusted for mergers and changes in actuarial methods or assumptions.

Flexible funding rules for court pensions

The Clerks' of Court retirement board can keep last year's employer contribution rate when the calculated rate falls. It can choose a lower rate, but not below the legally calculated rate. It can also require a rate up to 3% above that calculated rate. Surplus money collected when the board uses this authority must enter the funding deposit account, which continues from 2009. The account earns yearly interest at the board-approved actuarial valuation rate. The board can use it only for existing unfunded pension debt, future normal pension costs, future employer contributions, or cost-of-living increases. Spending cannot exceed the account balance. Money used for future employer contributions lowers the minimum required rate, based on interest-adjusted charges divided by projected yearly payroll. The account is excluded from assets used to calculate employer rates, but remains a system asset for other purposes. The law also repeals R.S. 11:105(A)(2), 106(A)(2), 107(A)(2), 107.1(A)(2), 242(B)(2), 243(A)(2), and 246(A)(2). The supplied text does not explain those repealed rules, so their specific effects are unclear.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Tony Bacala

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 137 • No: 1

Senate vote • 5/18/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 32 • No: 0

House vote • 3/26/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 1. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 92 • No: 1

House vote • 3/23/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 13 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 279.

    5/22/2026House

  2. Effective date: 05/22/2026.

    5/22/2026House

  3. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/19/2026House

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

    5/19/2026House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/19/2026Senate

  6. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/19/2026House

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/18/2026Senate

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

    5/13/2026Senate

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

    5/12/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/11/2026Senate

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

    4/14/2026Senate

  12. Reported favorably.

    4/13/2026Senate

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

    3/31/2026Senate

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

    3/30/2026Senate

  15. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 1. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    3/26/2026House

  16. Scheduled for floor debate on 03/26/2026.

    3/25/2026House

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

    3/24/2026House

  18. Reported with amendments (13-0).

    3/23/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

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

    1/23/2026House

  21. Prefiled.

    1/20/2026House

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

    1/20/2026House

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