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HB 904 Original 2016 Regular Session Billiot
Abstract: Provides an exception, applicable to certified water and sewerage system operators, to
a required reduction in retirement benefits for reemployed retirees from the Municipal
Employees' Retirement System (MERS).
Present law provides that during a period of reemployment of a retiree of MERS, his employment
income plus his retirement benefit may not exceed his average final compensation; if it does, his
retirement benefit is reduced by the excess amount.
Proposed law retains present law except to provide that the required reduction in benefits does not
apply to a certified operator of a water supply or sewerage system who returns to work in such a
position. Limits this exception to not more than a lifetime total of three years.
Effective July 1, 2016.
(Amends R.S. 11:1762(B))