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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE BILL NO. 29
BY SENATOR WALSWORTH
TEACHERS RETIREMENT. Allows retired educational diagnosticians and reading
specialists to avoid benefit suspension during reemployment. (2/3 - CA10s29(F)) (6/30/14)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 11:710(A)(6), relative to the Teachers' Retirement System of2
Louisiana; to allow certain retirees reemployed as educational diagnosticians or3
reading specialists to receive benefits during reemployment; to provide for an4
effective date; and to provide for related matters.5
Notice of intention to introduce this Act has been published.6
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:7
Section 1. R.S. 11:710(A)(6) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:8
ยง710. Employment of retirees9
A. For purposes of this Section, "retired teacher" shall mean any of the10
following:11
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(6) A retired member who is an educational diagnostician or a reading13
specialist or who holds an advanced degree in speech therapy, speech pathology, or14
audiology.15
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Section 2. The cost of this Act, if any, shall be funded with additional employer17 SB NO. 29
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contributions in compliance with Article X, Section 29(F) of the Constitution of Louisiana.1
Section 3. This Act shall become effective on June 30, 2014; if vetoed by the2
governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become effective on3
June 30, 2014, or on the day following such approval by the legislature, whichever is later.4
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Margaret M. Corley.
DIGEST
Present law generally prohibits any retiree of the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana
from receiving a retirement benefit while reemployed, subject to certain exceptions.
Provides that the benefit of a reemployed retiree is suspended for the duration of
reemployment.
Present law allows certain classes of retirees, including those holding advanced degrees in
speech therapy, speech pathology, and audiology, to avoid benefit suspension during
reemployment.
Proposed law adds retirees reemployed as educational diagnosticians and reading specialists
to the exceptions to present law.
Proposed law requires any cost of proposed law to be funded with additional employer
contributions in compliance with Art. X, Section 29(F) of the state constitution.
Effective June 30, 2014.
(Amends R.S. 11:710(A)(6))