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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE BILL NO. 549
BY SENATOR GALLOT
LOCAL EMPLOYEES. Provides relative to the wages for firefighters. (8/1/14)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 33:1992(A)(1) and 2002(A)(3)(a), relative to minimum wages2
for firefighters; to provide relative to the components of a firefighter's starting salary;3
to provide relative to compliance with the requirements of the Fair Labor Standards4
Act; and to provide for related matters.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. R.S. 33:1992(A)(1) and 2002(A)(3)(a) are hereby amended and reenacted7
to read as follows:8
§1992. Minimum salaries9
A. The minimum monthly salaries of firemen in municipalities having a10
population of twelve thousand or more and in the city of Bastrop and of all parish11
and fire protection district paid firemen, including salaries payable out of the avails12
of any special tax provided by the Constitution of Louisiana for increasing the pay13
of firemen, shall be in accordance with the following schedule, and such salaries14
shall be paid semi-monthly not later than the fifth and twentieth day of each calendar15
month:16
(1) A fireman shall receive a minimum monthly salary of four hundred17 SB NO. 549
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dollars per month based on a regular hourly rate of pay compliant with the Fair1
Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. 201 et seq. This salary shall be exclusive of2
supplemental pay received pursuant to R.S. 33:2002.3
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§2002. Extra compensation5
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(3)(a) A municipality, parish, fire protection district, or other political7
subdivision maintaining a fire department, or the Chitimacha Tribe of8
Louisiana or the Coushatta Indian Tribe of Louisiana, or any nonprofit9
corporation contracting with any such political subdivision to provide fire10
protection services may enhance the first-year salary of every paid, regularly11
employed employee in the amount equivalent to the state supplemental pay, or12
any portion thereof, that the employee shall be entitled to be paid after one year13
of service pursuant to this Subpart, so long as the first-year salary, exclusive of14
the enhancement, meets the minimum wage obligations of the Fair Labor15
Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.16
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jerry J. Guillot.
DIGEST
Gallot (SB 549)
Present law, relative to the wages of firemen, requires that the minimum monthly salaries
of firemen in municipalities having a population of 12,000 or more and in the city of Bastrop
and of all parish and fire protection district paid firemen, including salaries payable out of
the avails of any special tax provided by the constitution for increasing the pay of firemen,
is $400 per month and paid semi-monthly not later than the fifth and twentieth day of each
calendar month.
Proposed law requires the minimum monthly salary be based on a regular hourly rate of pay
compliant with the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. 201 et seq., exclusive of
supplemental pay received pursuant to R.S. 33:2002.
Present law provides that a municipality, parish, fire protection district, or other political
subdivision maintaining a fire department, or the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana or the
Coushatta Indian Tribe of Louisiana, or any nonprofit corporation contracting with any such
political subdivision to provide fire protection services may enhance the first-year salary of
every paid, regularly employed employee in the amount equivalent to the state supplemental
pay, or any portion thereof, that the employee shall be entitled to be paid after one year of
service. SB NO. 549
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Proposed law retains present law and provides condition that the first-year salary, exclusive
of the enhancement, meets the minimum wage obligations of the Fair Labor Standards Act,
29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Amends R.S. 33:1992(A)(1) and 2002(A)(3)(a))