Legislative Session News Archive
Regular Session News #27: Gov. Edwards signs Jones' COLA bill
Jun 17, 2016
Yesterday afternoon Gov. John Bel Edwards signed HB 32 (Rep. Jones). House Bill 32 grants a 1.5% benefit increase to eligible TRSL retirees and beneficiaries, effective July 1, 2016. The governor’s signature today affirms the COLA authorized by Act 93, and does not provide for an additional COLA. To check the latest status of all bills that TRSL was monitoring during the Regular Session, please visit the Legislation page of our website...
Regular Session News #26: 2016 session wrap-up
Jun 7, 2016
The 2016 regular legislative session ended at 6 p.m. yesterday. Here’s what happened in the final hours to a number of bills awaiting legislative action. Return-to-work bills fail to pass Three return-to-work bills failed final passage. Last week, the bills were sent to separate conference committees after the House rejected the Senate’s amendments to the bills. In order to gain final passage, recommendations of the conference c...
Regular Session News #25: Legislative Session - Week in Review
Jun 3, 2016
The House rejected Senate amendments to a trio of bills affecting the law that governs TRSL retirees who return to work in positions eligible for TRSL membership. The amendments would have increased the waiting period between retirement and returning to work from 12 months to 36 months for non-critical shortage positions for the legislation below. (The re-employment of retirees who have met the 12-month waiting period and returned to work prior t...
Regular Session News #24: Return-to-work bills move forward
Jun 2, 2016
The Senate has passed the following bills affecting the law that governs TRSL retirees who return to work in positions eligible for TRSL membership: House Bill 907 (LeBas), increases the earnings allowed for TRSL retirees who are re-employed as substitute classroom teachers and filling a vacancy created by extended leave, from 25% of benefit to 50% of benefit. House Bill 61 (Hoffmann), adds “school psychologist” ...