DIGEST
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CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP ORT DIGEST
HB 250 2023 Regular Session Bishop
Keyword and oneliner of the instrument as it left the House
ASSESSORS: Authorizes assessors in each parish to increase their annual compensation
Report adopts Senate amendments to:
1. Change the one-time increase in annual compensation for calendar year 2023 from not to
exceed 2% to not to exceed 5%.
2. Change the additional compensation an assessor may receive from an annual increase not to
exceed 2% each year for the term beginning on Jan. 1, 2025, to not to exceed 5% for the term
beginning after Dec. 31, 2024.
Report rejects Senate amendments which would have:
1. Deleted the requirement that the additional per-term increase in annual compensation shall
become effective 30 days after the increase is disclosed at a public meeting of the parish
governing authority of the parish in which the assessor's office is situated if the assessor
publishes notice in the parish's official journal of his intent to increase his compensation on
two separate days.
Report amends the bill to:
1. Provide that additional compensation authorized for the term beginning after Dec. 31, 2024
becomes effective if the assessor publishes notice in the parish's official journal of his intent
to increase his compensation on two separate days. The last day of publication of the notice
shall be at least 30 days prior to the date the assessor increases his compensation.
Digest of the bill as proposed by the Conference Committee
Present law requires assessors in each parish to receive annual compensation in the following
amounts for the performance of all duties required of them in present law based on the following applicable population ranges:
(1)If population is 50,000 or less, annual compensation of $88,290.
(2)If population is 50,001 to 249,999, annual compensation of $98,290.
(3)If population is greater than 250,000, annual compensation of $108,290.
Present law authorizes the following compensation in addition to the annual compensation set forth
in present law:
(1)10% of annual compensation as a personal expense allowance.
(2)One-time 7% increase after successful completion of a program to be a certified La. assessor
and approval by a certification committee.
(3)One-time $10,000 increase effective July 1, 1999.
(4)One-time increase of not exceeding $7,000.
(5)Beginning in calendar year 2013 and ending in calendar year 2016, an increase of up to 4%
each calendar year over four calendar years.
Proposed law retains present law and authorizes an assessor to increase his annual compensation by
not more than 5% in calendar year 2023.
Proposed law further authorizes, for the term beginning after Dec. 31, 2024 only, an assessor to
increase his annual compensation by not more than 5%. This additional compensation shall become
effective if the assessor publishes notice of his intent to increase his compensation on two separate
days in the parish's official journal. The last day of publication of the notice shall be at least 30 days
prior to the date the assessor increases his compensation.
Effective July 1, 2023.
(Amends R.S. 47:1907(A)(1); Adds R.S. 47:1907(L) and (M))