This amendment changes where lawsuits involving the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (MPERS) must be filed, depending on whether MPERS is being sued or if it is suing someone else.
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HB1082
Law setting court locations for Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System cases
Last scannedAug 25, 2026, 3:26 AM
In one sentence
This law sets specific rules about which parish courts can hear lawsuits involving the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System.
What it does
- Amends Code of Civil Procedure Article 84 to list retirement systems that must be sued in East Baton Rouge Parish or their home parish.
- Adds a new rule, Article 84.1, specifically for cases involving the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System.
- Requires lawsuits against the system or its board of trustees to be filed in East Baton Rouge Parish or where the retirement system is located.
- States that if the retirement system files a lawsuit as the plaintiff, it must happen only in the parish where the cause of action arises.
Who it affects
- The Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System and its board of trustees
- People or groups filing lawsuits against this retirement system
- District courts in East Baton Rouge Parish and other parishes named by the law
Limits and unknowns
- This law does not change rules for retirement systems other than the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System.
- The text only defines where cases can be filed, not how judges will decide them or what laws apply to the case facts.
Plain language
Terms to know
- Venue
- The specific geographic location where a court case must be heard.
- Parish
- A county-level government area in the state of Louisiana.
- Plaintiff
- The person or group that starts a lawsuit by filing it against someone else.
Official record
Sources
Official summary
CIVIL/VENUE: Provides for venue with respect to the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System
Official activity
Bill history
- Effective date: 08/01/2026.H
- Becomes Act No. 936 without the Governor's signature.H
- Sent to the Governor for executive approval.H
- Signed by the President of the Senate.S
- Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.H
- Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.H
- Scheduled for concurrence on 05/27/2026.H
- Received from the Senate with amendments.H
- Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.S
- Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.S
- Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.S
- Reported with amendments.S
- Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.S
- Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.S
- Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 3. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.H
- Called from the calendar.H
- Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2026.H
- Notice given.H
- Read by title, returned to the calendar.H
- Scheduled for floor debate on 04/20/2026.H
Changes
Amendments
4 stored
This amendment records that the House voted to agree with changes made by the Senate to a bill about where legal cases involving police retirement funds can be heard.
This amendment changes where lawsuits involving the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System can be filed by updating specific legal language and setting new location rules.
This amendment changes how lawsuits involving the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System are handled by updating specific words and setting new rules for where these cases must be filed.