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HB26 • 2026

RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to partial dissolution of an employer in the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (OR SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE FC)

RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to partial dissolution of an employer in the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (OR SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE FC)

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Aimee Adatto Freeman
Last action
2026-03-09
Official status
Pending House Retirement - Considered 4/9/26
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to partial dissolution of an employer in the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (OR SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE FC)

RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to partial dissolution of an employer in the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (OR SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE FC)

What This Bill Does

  • RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to partial dissolution of an employer in the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (OR SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE FC)

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.

Bill History

  1. 2026-03-09 H

    Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement.

  2. 2026-01-23 H

    First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/23/2026.

  3. 2026-01-21 H

    Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement.

  4. 2026-01-21 H

    Prefiled.

Official Summary Text

RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to partial dissolution of an employer in the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (OR SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE FC)

Current Bill Text

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HLS 26RS-317 ORIGINAL
2026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 26
BY REPRESENTATIVE FREEMAN
RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to partial dissolution of an employer
in the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 11:2225.4(A)(2)(b)(ii), relative to the Municipal Police
3 Employees' Retirement System; to provide for partial dissolution of a police
4 department; to provide for payment of the system's unfunded accrued liability; and
5 to provide for related matters.
6 Notice of intention to introduce this Act has been published
7 as provided by Article X, Section 29(C) of the Constitution
8 of Louisiana.
9 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
10 Section 1. R.S. 11:2225.4(A)(2)(b)(ii) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as
11 follows:
12 §2225.4. Unfunded accrued liability; payment by employer
13 A.
14 * * *
15 (2)
16 * * *
17 (b) A participating employer shall be deemed to have partially dissolved its
18 police department if either of the following occurs:
19 * * *
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HLS 26RS-317 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 26
1 (ii) The number of participating employees of the employer as of June
2 thirtieth is at least fifty one hundred fewer than the number of participating
3 employees of the employer as of June thirtieth of the prior year.
4 * * *
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 26 Original 2026 Regular Session Freeman
Abstract: Provides for the partial dissolution of a police department in the Municipal
Police Employees' Retirement System (MPERS).
Present law requires a police department that reduces its size by 50 or more participating
employees in a fiscal year to make certain unfunded accrued liability payments to MPERS
based on the size of the department prior to the reduction.
Proposed law increases to 100 the reduction that triggers such required payments.
(Amends R.S. 11:2225.4(A)(2)(b)(ii))
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.