This amendment updates pay schedules for voter registrars, changes how parish population counts are used to set salaries, redraws three state senate district maps using new data files, and clarifies rules about when salary adjustments can happen.
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SB25
SB25: New Pay Rules for Parish Voter Registrars
Last scannedAug 25, 2026, 3:26 AM
In one sentence
This law sets new yearly pay amounts and step increases based on population size for parish registrars of voters, chief deputies, and confidential assistants.
What it does
- Sets specific salary ranges for registrars of voters based on parish population sizes from zero to one million people.
- Creates a twelve-step pay schedule that allows employees to move up in pay after receiving an 'excellent' merit evaluation.
- Requires the Secretary of State or their designee to evaluate registrars annually in January to determine if they qualify for raises.
- Establishes similar salary ranges and step increases for chief deputy registrars who are evaluated by their parish registrar.
- Limits changes to base salaries based on population shifts so that adjustments only happen once every ten years after the federal census.
Who it affects
- Parish Registrars of Voters in Louisiana
- Chief Deputy Registrars of Voters
- Confidential Assistants working for registrars' offices
Limits and unknowns
- Salary adjustments based on population changes can only occur once every ten years after receiving federal census data.
- Employees cannot receive more than five annual raises triggered by 'excellent' merit evaluations while at step ten or higher.
- The exact salary for a specific parish depends on which population range the parish falls into, as listed in the new pay tables.
Plain language
Terms to know
- Registrar of Voters
- The official responsible for managing voter registration and elections in a parish.
- Merit Evaluation
- An annual review that rates an employee's performance as excellent, successful, unsuccessful, or not assessed to decide on pay increases.
- Decennial Census
- The federal count of the population taken every ten years used to set base salary levels.
Official record
Sources
Official summary
REGISTRARS OF VOTERS: Adjusts compensation schedule for Registrar of Voters. (7/1/26) (EN +$496,168 GF EX See Note)
Official activity
Bill history
- Effective date 6/22/2026.S
- Becomes Act No. 955 without the Governor's signature.S
- Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate.S
- Signed by the Speaker of the House.H
- Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.S
- Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 32 yeas and 3 nays.S
- Received from the House with amendments.S
- Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 3. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.H
- Called from the calendar.H
- Read by title, returned to the calendar.H
- Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/2026.H
- Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.H
- Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.H
- Reported with amendments (16-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.H
- Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.H
- Reported with amendments (11-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.H
- Read by title, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.H
- Rules suspended.H
- Called from the calendar.H
- Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.H
Changes
Amendments
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