RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 95 (HB 87) 2019 Regular Session Leopold
Existing law authorizes supplementary pay of $500 per month for any regularly employed
fire protection officer who has completed one year of service and 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., Coushatta Tribe of La., or
any nonprofit corporation contracting with any political subdivision. Further authorizes
supplemental pay for certain full-time firefighters with the New Orleans port authority.
New law 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
existing law, then new law authorizes a supplemental pay 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))