Legislative Session News Archive
Regular Session News #3: House retirement committee to meet Thursday
May 5, 2020
After suspending its 2020 Regular Session in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Louisiana Legislature reconvened on Monday, May 4. The House Retirement Committee is scheduled to meet at 1 p.m., Thursday, May 7 to consider two bills affecting TRSL: House Bill 8 (Rep. Bourriaque) would waive the 25% cap on earnings (per fiscal year) and the 12-month waiting period for re-employed retirees hired as PreK-12 substitute classroom teachers i...
Regular Session News #2 Legislature suspends session amid coronavirus spread
Mar 16, 2020
The Louisiana Legislature has suspended its 2020 Regular Session until March 31 in response to the coronavirus pandemic. TRSL will keep you informed about the status of the session as well as bills impacting the retirement system once the session reconvenes.
Regular Session News #1: 2020 Regular session starts Monday, several bills would affect TRSL
Mar 6, 2020
The 2020 Regular Legislative Session begins Monday, March 9, and TRSL is monitoring the following bills that would impact the retirement system and its members: Senate bills affecting TRSL Senate Bill 2 (Sen. F. Mills) would waive mandatory TRSL membership for TRSL-eligible employees hired on or after July 1, 2020, who are 60 years old at the time of employment or 55 years old with at least 40 quarters of credit in Social Security....
Session News #9: Short session closes with few bills impacting TRSL
Jun 6, 2019
The 2019 legislative session, which began April 8, ended today. TRSL monitored five pieces of legislation that would have impacted the retirement system. Ultimately, only two resolutions relating to Social Security offsets gained final passage. House Concurrent Resolution 20 (Rep. Jones) and Senate Concurrent Resolution 34 (Sen. Mizell) both request that Congress review and consider eliminating the Windfall Elimination Provision...