Legislative Session News Archive
Regular Session News #9: Return-to-work bill passes Senate
May 29, 2020
On Wednesday, May 27, the full Senate passed return-to-work bill, House Bill 8 (Rep. Bourriaque) with additional floor amendments. While HB 8 was substantively amended last week by the Senate Retirement Committee, the full Senate amendments largely restated committee amendments and made several additional changes. In its current posture, HB 8 now does the following: Provides that the current return-to-work law will only a...
Regular Session News #8: Amended return-to-work bill passes Senate Retirement Committee
May 26, 2020
The Senate Retirement Committee met Friday, May 22, and considered two pieces of legislation affecting TRSL. House Bill 8 (Rep. Bourriaque) was reported favorably, after being amended. When it left the House, HB 8 would have waived the 25% cap on earnings (per fiscal year) for re-employed retirees hired as PreK-12 substitute classroom teachers. As amended, HB 8 does the following: Provides that the current return-to-work law will only a...
Regular Session News #7: Busy week for retirement legislation
May 21, 2020
On Monday, the full House approved the following two resolutions affecting TRSL: House Concurrent Resolution 9 (Rep. M. Johnson) requests that Congress consider eliminating the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) Social Security benefit reductions. HCR 9 now awaits consideration by the Senate Retirement Committee. House Resolution 21 (Rep. Harris) requests the state retirement systems rep...
Regular Session News #6: Retirement bills continue to move forward
May 18, 2020
Two bills that would affect TRSL received final passage in the full House on Friday, May 15. House Bill 8 (Rep. Bourriaque) would waive the 25% cap on earnings (per fiscal year) for re-employed retirees hired as PreK-12 substitute classroom teachers. House Bill 10 (Rep. Edmonds) would change the computation of average compensation (for purposes of calculating retirement benefits) when a member has an interruption in service of more than 10 ...