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HB1082 • 2026

CIVIL/VENUE: Provides for venue with respect to the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System

CIVIL/VENUE: Provides for venue with respect to the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System

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Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Jason Dewitt
Last action
2026-06-23
Official status
Became law without the Governor's signature - Act 936
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

CIVIL/VENUE: Provides for venue with respect to the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System

CIVIL/VENUE: Provides for venue with respect to the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System

What This Bill Does

  • CIVIL/VENUE: Provides for venue with respect to the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Amendments

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Filed

Plain English: SSHB1082 4747 5883 HOUSE SUMMARY OF SENATE AMENDMENTS HB 1082 2026 Regular Session Dewitt CIVIL/VENUE: Provides for venue with respect to the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System Synopsis of Senate Amendments 1.

  • SSHB1082 4747 5883 HOUSE SUMMARY OF SENATE AMENDMENTS HB 1082 2026 Regular Session Dewitt CIVIL/VENUE: Provides for venue with respect to the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System Synopsis of Senate Amendments 1.
  • Requires action to be brought in East Baton Rouge Parish or in the parish of the domicile of the retirement system or employee benefit program when the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System or its board of trustees is the defendant.
  • 2.
  • Requires action to be brought only in the district court having jurisdiction in the parish where the cause of action arises when the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System or its board of trustees is the plaintiff.
Filed

Plain English: 2026 Regular Session Sequence: 1620 HBS AMENDED BY SENATE TO BE CONCURRED IN HB 1082 BY DEWITT CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS Date: 5/27/2026 Time: 5:05:29 PM ROLL CALL The roll was called with the following result: YEAS Adams Amedee Bamburg Bayham Beaullieu Berault Billings Boudreaux Bourriaque Boyd Boyer Brass Braud Broussard Bryant Butler Carlson Carpenter Carrier Carver Chenevert Coates Cox Crews Deshotel Dewitt Dickerson Domangue Echols Edmonston Egan Firment Fisher Fontenot Freeman Freiberg Gadberry Galle Geymann Glorioso Green Hebert Henry, C.

  • 2026 Regular Session Sequence: 1620 HBS AMENDED BY SENATE TO BE CONCURRED IN HB 1082 BY DEWITT CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS Date: 5/27/2026 Time: 5:05:29 PM ROLL CALL The roll was called with the following result: YEAS Adams Amedee Bamburg Bayham Beaullieu Berault Billings Boudreaux Bourriaque Boyd Boyer Brass Braud Broussard Bryant Butler Carlson Carpenter Carrier Carver Chenevert Coates Cox Crews Deshotel Dewitt Dickerson Domangue Echols Edmonston Egan Firment Fisher Fontenot Freeman Freiberg Gadberry Galle Geymann Glorioso Green Hebert Henry, C.
  • Henry, D.
  • Horton Illg Jackson Johnson, M.
  • Johnson, T.
Adopted

Plain English: SCAHB1082 4335 3639 SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senate Committee on Judiciary A to Engrossed House Bill No.

  • SCAHB1082 4335 3639 SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senate Committee on Judiciary A to Engrossed House Bill No.
  • 1082 by Representative Dewitt 1 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 1 2 On page 1, line 3, after "suits" delete "against" and insert "involving" 3 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 2 4 On page 2, delete lines 2 through 4 in their entirety and insert the following: 5 "A.
Draft

Plain English: SCAHB1082 4335 3637 SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senate Committee on Judiciary A to Engrossed House Bill No.

  • SCAHB1082 4335 3637 SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senate Committee on Judiciary A to Engrossed House Bill No.
  • 1082 by Representative Dewitt 1 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 1 2 On page 1, line 3, after "suits" delete "against" and insert "involving" 3 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 2 4 On page 2, delete lines 2 through 4 in their entirety and insert the following: 5 "A.

Bill History

  1. 2026-06-23 H

    Effective date: 08/01/2026.

  2. 2026-06-23 H

    Becomes Act No. 936 without the Governor's signature.

  3. 2026-05-29 H

    Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

  4. 2026-05-28 S

    Signed by the President of the Senate.

  5. 2026-05-28 H

    Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

  6. 2026-05-27 H

    Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

  7. 2026-05-26 H

    Scheduled for concurrence on 05/27/2026.

  8. 2026-05-25 H

    Received from the Senate with amendments.

  9. 2026-05-21 S

    Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

  10. 2026-05-14 S

    Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

  11. 2026-05-13 S

    Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

  12. 2026-05-12 S

    Reported with amendments.

  13. 2026-04-29 S

    Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.

  14. 2026-04-28 S

    Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

  15. 2026-04-28 H

    Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 3. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

  16. 2026-04-28 H

    Called from the calendar.

  17. 2026-04-23 H

    Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2026.

  18. 2026-04-23 H

    Notice given.

  19. 2026-04-20 H

    Read by title, returned to the calendar.

  20. 2026-04-15 H

    Scheduled for floor debate on 04/20/2026.

  21. 2026-04-14 H

    Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

  22. 2026-04-13 H

    Reported favorably (8-0-1).

  23. 2026-03-31 H

    Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.

  24. 2026-03-30 H

    Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

Official Summary Text

CIVIL/VENUE: Provides for venue with respect to the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System

Current Bill Text

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ENROLLED
ACT No. 9362026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 1082
BY REPRESENTATIVES DEWITT, BUTLER, FIRMENT, TRAVIS JOHNSON, AND
OWEN
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact Code of Civil Procedure Article 84 and to enact Code of Civil
3 Procedure Article 84.1, relative to venue; to provide for suits involving the
4 Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System; to establish venue; and to provide
5 for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. Code of Civil Procedure Article 84 is hereby amended and reenacted and
8 Code of Civil Procedure Article 84.1 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
9 Art. 84. Action involving certain retirement systems and employee benefit programs
10 Actions involving the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System, Office
11 of Group Benefits, State Police Pension and Relief Fund, Louisiana School
12 Employees' Retirement System, Louisiana School Lunch Employees' Retirement
13 System, Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana, Assessors' Retirement Fund,
14 Clerks of Court Retirement and Relief Fund, District Attorneys' Retirement System,
15 Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana, Parochial Employees'
16 Retirement System of Louisiana, Registrar of Voters Employees' Retirement System,
17 Sheriffs' Pension and Relief Fund, Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System,
18 or the Firefighters' Retirement System shall be brought in the parish of East Baton
19 Rouge or in the parish of the domicile of the retirement system or employee benefit
20 program.
21 Art. 84.1. Actions involving the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System
22 A. If the defendant is the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System
23 or its board of trustees, the action shall be brought in the parish of East Baton Rouge
24 or in the parish of the domicile of the retirement system or employee benefit
25 program.
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are additions.
HB NO. 1082 ENROLLED
1 B. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, if the Municipal
2 Police Employees' Retirement System or its board of trustees is the plaintiff, the
3 action shall be brought only in the district court having jurisdiction in the parish in
4 which the cause of action arises.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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