HLS 19RS-127 REENGROSSED
2019 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 87
BY REPRESENTATIVE LEOPOLD AND SENATORS CARTER AND HEW ITT
Prefiled pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4)(b)(i) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
SUPPLEMENTAL PAY: Provides for supplemental pay for fire protection officers of the
Plaquemines Port Harbor and Terminal District
1 AN ACT
2To enact R.S. 40:1666.1(A)(6), relative to supplemental pay; to provide for eligibility for
3 certain fire protection officers; to provide certain requirements and limitations for
4 eligibility; to provide for an effective date; and to provide for related matters.
5Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 40:1666.1(A)(6) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
7 ยง1666.1. Extra compensation
8 A.(1)
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10 (6)(a) Every fire protection officer who is employed on a full-time basis by
11 the Plaquemines Port Harbor and Terminal District shall be paid by the state extra
12 compensation in the amount of five hundred dollars per month in addition to the
13 compensation now paid to him by his employer out of self-generated revenue
14 attributable to the agency employing the fire protection officers. To be eligible for
15 the extra compensation, each fire protection officer shall have completed one year
16 of service, and any fire protection officer hired after March 31, 1986, shall also have
17 completed and passed a certified fireman's training program equal to National Fire
18 Protection Association Standard 1001 Firefighter I Certification or a firemen's
19 training program as approved by the Louisiana State University Firemen Training
20 Program in accordance with R.S. 40:1541 et seq., or other state or federally approved
21 maritime firefighter training program.
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HB NO. 87
1 (b) In the event that supplemental pay is increased as provided for in R.S.
2 40:1666.1(A)(1), then the same amount of supplemental pay shall be increased for
3 the officers provided for in this Paragraph.
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5 Section 2. This Act shall become effective on July 1, 2020.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 87 Reengrossed 2019 Regular Session Leopold
Abstract: Authorizes for supplemental pay of $500 per month for fire protection officers
of the Plaquemines Port Harbor and Terminal District.
Present law authorizes supplementary pay of $500 per month for any regularly employed
firefighter who is paid not less than $300 per month by any municipality, parish, fire
protection district or other political subdivision maintaining a fire department or by the
Chitimacha Tribe of La. or Coushatta Tribe of La., or any nonprofit corporation contracting
with any political subdivision and has completed one year of service. Further authorizes
supplemental pay for certain full-time firefighters with the New Orleans port authority.
Proposed law retains present law but adds full time fire protection officers of the
Plaquemines Port Harbor and Terminal District to the list of fire protection officers
authorized to receive supplemental pay of $500 per month. If supplemental pay is increased
for other fire protection officers as provided in present law, then supplemental pay shall also
increase for fire protection officers of the Plaquemines Port Harbor and Terminal District.
Effective July 1, 2020.
(Adds R.S. 40:1666.1(A)(6))
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