Legislative Session News Archive
Session News #5: Two Senate retirement bills advance to the House
Apr 28, 2015
Yesterday, the full Senate met and passed two retirement-related bills with amendments. The legislation below now goes to the House retirement committee for consideration. Senate Bill 20 (Sen. Long) restructures the state’s return-to-work law and adds school counselors to critical shortage positions that qualify as “retired teachers.” “School social workers” were added to the critical shortage positions eligible t...
Session News #4: Legislative week in review
Apr 24, 2015
TRSL Director Maureen H. Westgard and LASERS Executive Director Cindy Rougeou made a joint presentation before the Senate Retirement Committee earlier this week to provide an overview of the retirement systems’ funding and performance. Westgard and Rougeou also detailed the numerous reforms Louisiana has made over the last 25 years that will result in $8 billion of long-term cost savings related to pensions. View the joint powerp...
Session News #3: House retirement committee okays service credit purchase bill
Apr 22, 2015
The House Retirement Committee today favorably reported House Bill 10 (Rep. Pearson) to the full House for consideration. This legislation would allow TRSL members to purchase service credit for out-of-state, private school teaching service. To view a comprehensive list of all legislation affecting TRSL this session, visit the Legislation page of TRSL’s website.
Session News #2: Two retirement bills advance, including new return-to-work provisions
Apr 21, 2015
The Senate Retirement Committee met yesterday and took the following action on the legislation below: Senate Bill 14 (Sen. Guillory) was deferred by the author. This bill proposes to add an assessment for administrative expenses (excluding investment-related expenses) in the determination of the annual required employer contributions for each of the four state retirement systems. Senate Bill 16 (Sen. Guillory) was ...