RETIREMENT/SHERIFFS FUND: Provides relative to membership in the Sheriffs' Pension and Relief Fund (EN SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE FC)

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ACT No. 462026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 48
BY REPRESENTATIVE BACALA
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 11:2174(B)(1)(b)(introductory paragraph) and (3)(a) and to enact
3 R.S. 11:2173.1, 2174(B)(6), and 2178(O), relative to the Sheriffs' Pension and Relief
4 Fund; to provide relative to employer responsibilities; to provide relative to
5 membership in the system; to provide relative to the payment of employee and
6 employer contributions; and to provide for related matters.
7 Notice of intention to introduce this Act has been published
8 as provided by Article X, Section 29(C) of the Constitution
9 of Louisiana.
10 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
11 Section 1. R.S. 11:2174(B)(1)(b)(introductory paragraph) and (3)(a) are hereby
12 amended and reenacted and R.S. 11:2173.1, 2174(B)(6), and 2178(O) are hereby enacted to
13 read as follows:
14 §2173.1. Employers' responsibilities
15 Each agency that employs a person who is required to be a member of this
16 fund under the provisions of R.S. 11:2174 or who is a member of this fund pursuant
17 to any other provision of law shall be subject to the laws, requirements, terms, and
18 conditions that apply to any sheriff in the sheriff's capacity as an employer
19 participating in the fund, including the provisions mandating the employer to remit
20 to the fund the amounts required to be deducted from the salaries of the members and
21 the percentage of the total of the participating members' salaries set as an employer
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1 contribution rate by the board in accordance with R.S. 11:103 and 2175.1 and the
2 provisions providing penalties for delinquent contributions contained in R.S.
3 11:2181.
4 §2174. Remittance of percentage of taxes collected to fund; membership; salary
5 deductions; deficiency in fund; credit
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7 B. Membership. (1)
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9 (b) Each deputy, including the criminal and civil deputies of the parish of
10 Orleans, and the criers of the several divisions of the Civil District Court for the
11 parish of Orleans and the Louisiana Supreme Court who, on the date of the filing of
12 the application to become a member, is age eighteen or over shall become a member
13 of this fund, provided that his monthly salary including state supplemental pay is not
14 less than the following:
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16 (3)(a) The percentage specified in R.S. 11:62(9) of the salaries of all
17 members of the Sheriffs' Pension and Relief Fund shall be deducted and a remittance
18 covering such deductions, together with the percentage determined in accordance
19 with R.S. 11:103 of the total of the participating members' salaries, including for
20 sheriffs the expense allowance provided by law in addition to regular salary, to be
21 paid from the sheriff's general fund or from the appropriate funding source of the
22 employer of the member, shall be made monthly to the treasurer of the board. In the
23 event of the failure of any sheriff or other employer of any member to make such
24 deductions and remittances, the treasurer of the board shall notify the legislative
25 auditor who shall order the depository to withhold payment of the checks of the
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1 sheriff's general fund or any available funding source of the employer until the
2 remittance is made.
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4 (6)(a) Any person who is a crier of the Louisiana Supreme Court on the
5 effective date of this Paragraph, who is not a member of this fund, but who is a
6 member of another Louisiana public retirement system may elect to become a
7 member of this fund by notifying this fund and the other system in writing by
8 September 30, 2026.
9 (b) Any person who is an employee of the Louisiana Supreme Court and
10 who is not a member of this fund but who is a member of another Louisiana public
11 retirement system covering Louisiana Supreme Court criers on the effective date of
12 this Paragraph who later becomes a crier of the Louisiana Supreme Court may elect
13 to remain a member of the other system by notifying this fund and the other system
14 in writing within thirty days of the person's employment date as a crier.
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16 §2178. Disability benefits; retirement benefits; death benefits
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18 O. No one who receives a benefit from this pension fund shall be eligible to
19 receive a benefit under the provisions of R.S. 13:75.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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