GREEN SHEET REDIGEST
HB 13 2018 Regular Session Gregory Miller
RETIREMENT/TEACHERS: Provides relative to the reemployment of retirees of the
Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana
DIGEST
Present law generally provides that a retiree of TRSL may not return to work in a position
covered by the system and continue to receive retirement benefits while reemployed. Further
provides exceptions to present law.
Present law authorizes a retiree to return to work as a substitute classroom teacher, an adjunct
professor, an instructor in an adult literacy program, or a school nurse and to continue to
receive his benefit check; however, the allowable employment earnings of such retiree are
capped at 25% of his benefit amount. Proposed law retains present law and adds presenter
of professional development and tutor to the list of positions that a retiree may return to
subject to a 25% earnings limitation.
Effective July 1, 2018.
(Amends R.S. 11:710(A)(3), (4), and (9); Adds R.S. 11:710(A)(5)(e), (f), and (g))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Retirement to the
engrossed bill
1. Makes technical changes.
2. Allows a retiree of TRSL to return to work as a tutor in pre-kindergarten
through twelfth grade and continue to collect his benefit check, subject to an
earnings limitation of 25% of his benefit amount.
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Prepared by Margaret M. Corley.