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2020 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 15
BY REPRESENTATIVE COUSSAN
RETIREMENT/LOCAL: Provides for membership of certain new hires of the Lafayette
City-Parish Consolidated Government in the Parochial Employees' Retirement
System of Louisiana
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 11:1753(C) and 1923(C), relative to the Municipal Employees'
3 Retirement System of Louisiana and the Parochial Employees' Retirement System
4 of Louisiana; to provide with respect to membership of certain employees in
5 Lafayette; and to provide for related matters.
6 Notice of intention to introduce this Act has been published
7 as provided by Article III, Section 13 and Article X, Section
8 29(C) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
9Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
10 Section 1. R.S. 11:1753(C) and 1923(C) are hereby amended and reenacted to read
11as follows:
12 §1753. Membership of employees after consolidation; Terrebonne Parish; Lafayette
13 Parish
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15 C.(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, including
16 Subsection A of this Section, any employee first employed on or after November 1,
17 2010, and prior to November 1, 2020, by any department created by the Home Rule
18 Charter for the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government, other than
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1 employees first employed by the police and fire departments who are enrolled in the
2 Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System or the Firefighters' Retirement
3 System, and any employee first employed on or after November 1, 2010, by the City
4 Court of Lafayette, inclusive of the office of marshal, but exclusive of the judges of
5 the city court, shall, as a condition of employment, become members of the
6 Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana if they otherwise satisfy the
7 membership eligibility requirements therefor.
8 (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any
9 employee first employed on or after November 1, 2020, by any department created
10 by the Home Rule Charter for the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government,
11 other than employees first employed by the police and fire departments who are
12 enrolled in the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System or the Firefighters'
13 Retirement System, and any employee first employed on or after November 1, 2020,
14 by the City Court of Lafayette, inclusive of the office of marshal but exclusive of the
15 judges of the city court, shall, as a condition of employment, become a member of
16 the Parochial Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana if he otherwise satisfies
17 the membership eligibility requirements therefor.
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19 §1923. Membership of employees after consolidation; Terrebonne Parish; Lafayette
20 Parish
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22 C.(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, including
23 Subsection A of this Section, any employee first employed on or after November 1,
24 2010, and prior to November 1, 2020, by any department created by the Home Rule
25 Charter for the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government, other than
26 employees hired by the police and fire departments who are enrolled in the
27 Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System or the Firefighters' Retirement
28 System, and any employee first employed on or after November 1, 2010, by the City
29 Court of Lafayette, inclusive of the office of marshal, but exclusive of the judges of
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1 the city court, shall, as a condition of employment, become members of the
2 Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana if they otherwise satisfy the
3 membership eligibility requirements therefor.
4 (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any
5 employee first employed on or after November 1, 2020, by any department created
6 by the Home Rule Charter for the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government,
7 other than employees hired by the police and fire departments who are enrolled in
8 the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System or the Firefighters' Retirement
9 System, and any employee first employed on or after November 1, 2020, by the City
10 Court of Lafayette, inclusive of the office of marshal but exclusive of the judges of
11 the city court, shall, as a condition of employment, become a member of the
12 Parochial Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana if he otherwise satisfies the
13 membership eligibility requirements therefor.
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 15 Original 2020 Regular Session Coussan
Abstract: Relative to the Municipal Employees' Retirement System (MERS) and the
Parochial Employees' Retirement System (PERS), provides that certain employees
of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government, first employed on or after
Nov. 1, 2020, shall no longer be members of MERS but shall instead be members of
PERS.
Present law, relative to MERS, provides that employees of participating incorporated cities,
towns, or villages in La. shall be members of MERS.
Present law, relative to PERS, provides that any permanent employee of a parish shall be a
member of PERS.
Present law, relative to both MERS and PERS, provides that if the governing authorities of
a municipality and a parish consolidate into one government, those members who were
members of MERS at the time of consolidation shall remain members of MERS. Those
people employed after such consolidation shall become members of PERS.
Present law provides that notwithstanding present law, any employee of the Lafayette City-
Parish Consolidated Government (LCPCG) first employed on or after Nov. 1, 2010, who is
in a department created by the LCPCG Home Rule Charter, except for police and
firefighters, shall become a member of PERS. Present law also includes certain employees
of the city court.
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Proposed law, applicable to the same groups of Lafayette employees, provides that those
hired on or after Nov. 1, 2020, shall become members of PERS instead of MERS.
(Amends R.S. 11:1753(C) and 1923(C))
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