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.
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))