HLS 24RS-151 ORIGINAL
2024 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 52
BY REPRESENTATIVE FIRMENT
CIVIL/VENUE: Provides relative to venue for certain legal actions instituted by the
Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact Code of Civil Procedure Article 84 and to enact Code of Civil
3 Procedure Article 84.1, relative to venue; to provide for proper venue for actions
4 involving the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System; and to provide for
5 related matters.
6Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. Code of Civil Procedure Article 84 is hereby amended and reenacted and
8Code of Civil Procedure Article 84.1 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
9 Art. 84. Action involving certain retirement systems and employee benefit programs
10 Actions involving the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System, Office
11 of Group Benefits, State Police Pension and Relief Fund, Louisiana School
12 Employees' Retirement System, Louisiana School Lunch Employees' Retirement
13 System, Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana, Assessors' Retirement Fund,
14 Clerks of Court Retirement and Relief Fund, District Attorneys' Retirement System,
15 Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana, Parochial Employees'
16 Retirement System of Louisiana, Registrar of Voters Employees' Retirement System,
17 Sheriffs' Pension and Relief Fund, Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System,
18 or the Firefighters' Retirement System shall be brought in the parish of East Baton
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HB NO. 52
1 Rouge or in the parish of the domicile of the retirement system or employee benefit
2 program.
3 Art. 84.1. Actions involving the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System
4 Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any action involving the Municipal
5 Police Employees' Retirement System or its board of trustees shall be instituted
6 before the district court of the judicial district in which the employer is located.
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 52 Original 2024 Regular Session Firment
Abstract: Provides relative to venue for actions involving the Municipal Police Employees'
Retirement System.
Present law provides that actions involving the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement
System shall be brought in the parish of East Baton Rouge or in the parish of the domicile
of the retirement system or employee benefit program.
Proposed law provides that actions involving the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement
System shall be instituted before the district court of the judicial district in which the
employer is located.
(Amends C.C.P. Art. 84; Adds C.C.P. Art. 84.1)
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