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HB 34 Engrossed 2016 Regular Session Reynolds
Abstract: Provides that any municipal mayor, whether appointed or elected and regardless of work
schedule, is in the Municipal Employees' Retirement System (MERS).
Present law creates and provides for MERS. Defines employee for purposes of applicability of the
retirement system as a person, including an elected official, actively employed by a municipality or
other specified entities on a permanent, regularly scheduled basis of at least 35 hours per week.
Proposed law retains present law and additionally provides that any municipal mayor, whether
appointed or elected and regardless of work schedule, is an employee covered by MERS.
Effective July 1, 2016
(Amends R.S. 11:1732(13)(a))