Legislative Session News Archive
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 ...
Regular Session News #5: Senate Retirement Committee advances two resolutions
May 12, 2020
On Monday, the Senate Retirement Committee reported the following resolutions favorably: Senate Concurrent Resolution 34 (Sen. Mizell) requests that Congress consider eliminating or reducing the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) Social Security benefit reductions. Senate Resolution 15 (Sen. Price) urges and requests that state retirement systems report to the legislature on alte...
Regular Session News #4: House Retirement Committee moves first retirement bills of the session forward
May 8, 2020
The House Retirement Committee met yesterday and considered two bills affecting TRSL. House Bill 10 (Rep. Edmonds) was reported favorably. This bill would change the computation on the limit of average compensation (for purposes of calculating retirement benefits) when a member has an interruption in service of more than 10 years. The committee also reported House Bill 8 (Rep. Bourriaque) favorably with amendments. HB 8 would waive th...