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LouisianaHB 232026 Regular SessionHouse

RETIREMENT/STATE EMPS: Grants a cost-of-living adjustment to eligible retirees and beneficiaries (EN +$235,000,000 APV)

Sponsored By: Tony Bacala (Republican)

Signed by Governor

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Louisiana state retirees can get pension increases

The law takes effect June 30, 2026. It authorizes the Louisiana State Employees’ Retirement System board to grant one cost-of-living increase, payable July 1, 2026. The increase is not automatic and cannot exceed 2% of the first $81,201 of an eligible pension benefit. Retirees without disability retirement must be at least 60 and have received benefits for one year by June 30, 2026. Other beneficiaries qualify when the retiree would have reached 60 by then. Their one-year requirement counts benefits paid to the retiree, beneficiary, or both. Disability retirees and beneficiaries receiving payments after a disability retiree’s death have the same one-year requirement, but no age requirement. The system’s actuary sets the increase, with agreement from the Legislative Auditor’s actuary, based on available experience-account funds after required credits and debits. The increase comes only from that account; additional employer contributions fund the law’s costs under state constitutional requirements.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Tony Bacala

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

  • Barbara Reich Freiberg

    Republican • House

  • Beth Anne Billings

    Republican • House

  • C. Denise Marcelle

    Democratic • House

  • C. Travis Johnson

    Democratic • House

  • Candace N. Newell

    Democratic • House

  • Chasity Martinez

    Democratic • House

  • Roy Daryl Adams

    Democratic • House

  • Dixon Wallace McMakin

    Republican • House

  • Jeremy LaCombe

    Republican • House

  • John R. Illg Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Kim Carver

    Republican • House

  • Michael Robert Bayham Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Paul Sawyer

    Republican • House

  • Reese "Skip" Broussard

    Republican • House

  • Rodney Lyons

    Democratic • House

  • Stephanie H. Berault

    Republican • House

  • Tammy T. Phelps

    Democratic • House

  • Vanessa Caston LaFleur

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 135 • No: 2

Senate vote • 5/13/2026

Rules suspended. 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 • 4/1/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 2. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 93 • No: 2

House vote • 3/26/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 9 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 280.

    5/22/2026House

  2. Effective date: 06/30/2026.

    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 33 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.

    5/6/2026Senate

  9. Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.

    5/5/2026Senate

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

    5/5/2026Senate

  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.

    4/7/2026Senate

  14. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 2. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/1/2026House

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

    4/1/2026Senate

  16. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/01/2026.

    3/31/2026House

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

    3/30/2026House

  18. Reported with amendments (9-0).

    3/26/2026House

  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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