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HOUSE SUMMARY OF SENATE AMENDMENTS
HB 43 2024 Regular Session Bacala
RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to contributions to and the
administration of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System
Synopsis of Senate Amendments
1.Add deadlines for applications for survivor benefits.
2.Extend DROP participation.
3.Remove proposed law regarding delinquent payments.
4.Amend proposed law relative to mandatory reporting of employees by
municipalities.
Digest of Bill as Finally Passed by Senate
Proposed law requires MPERS employers to submit to the retirement system a fully
completed membership enrollment form, a copy of the birth certificate and Social Security
card for each member it employs and his beneficiaries within 90 days after employment.
Present law requires an employee to have a physical examination and further requires that
the examination and the execution of any waivers of preexisting conditions or history be
received by the system within six months after employment.
Proposed law changes the deadline for submitting the physical examination to the system to
90 days after employment.
Present law provides for the payment of benefits to a survivor of a contributing member who
dies before retirement or a survivor of a disability retiree who dies. Provides survivor
benefits are payable upon application to MPERS and become effective on the day following
the member's death.
Proposed law retains present law if the application for survivor benefits is received by
Sept. 20, 2024, or 120 days following the member's death, whichever is later. If this deadline
is not met, the benefits become effective when a complete application is received and
payable no later than the first month following 30 days from the date that a complete
application is received.
Present law provides for the Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP) under which a retiree
continues to be employed, for a period of not more than three years, during which he defers
receipt of his retirement benefit.
Proposed law increases maximum DROP participation to five years.
Present law provides that the MPERS system is governed by a board of trustees comprised
of 15 members. Board membership includes seven active contributing members, four of
whom shall be police chiefs and three of whom shall not be chiefs.
Proposed law provides that if such a member of the board with no more than two years left
in his term becomes a retiree of the system or is no longer a police chief, he shall continue
to serve as a member of the board until the expiration of the term for which he was elected.
Proposed law requires a municipality that employed a police officer or chief within the
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previous five fiscal years to submit reports to the system as follows:
(1)Reports shall be submitted annually by the 15th day of July.
(2)The reports shall include the amount of earnable compensation per employee and
shall separately report state supplemental pay and the amount of compensation paid
for overtime. The report shall include other information prescribed by the board.
(3)If a report is in error as to the earnable compensation of any member and such an
error results in an overpayment of benefits by the system, the municipality shall
reimburse the system for the overpayments within 30 days after notification of the
discovery of the error or overpayment.
Proposed law requires a mandatory reporter that employed no employee during the previous
and current fiscal year to only submit electronically to the system an annual contributions
report and certify such no later than the 15th of July of the following fiscal year.
Effective July 1, 2024.
(Amends R.S. 11:2214(A)(2)(a) and (d)(ii), 2220(B)(2)(e), 2221(C) and (I)(1)(intro. para.),
2225(A)(3)(a), 2225.4(A)(1) and (B)(1), 2227(A) and (B)(1), 2241.4(A)(3), and 2242.4(3))
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