HB 18 Louisiana House · 2025 Regular Session

RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the funding of supplemental benefits for members of the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN +$5,714,000 FC SG EX)

HB 18 increases funding by $5.7 million for supplemental benefits within the Firefighters' Retirement System. This directly affects active and retired firefighters covered by the system, ensuring their supplemental retirement benefits are fully funded. The bill adjusts the state budget to provide this additional funding, with no new requirements or changes to eligibility. It is a straightforward budgetary appropriation, not a new policy or benefit expansion.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
House Passage
Jun 2025
Senate Passage
Jun 2025
Signed into Law
Jun 2025
Introduced Feb 25, 2025 Signed Jun 8, 2025
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Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2460, Price, Adopted HB18 Act · 5 edits
MODERATE
This bill amends the Firefighters' Retirement System to allow cost-of-living increases to be paid from the system's funding deposit account, which was previously prohibited. It also creates a new one-time $2,000 supplemental payment for retirees and beneficiaries who have received benefits for at least one year by June 30, 2025, with payments due by August 1, 2025.
Scope change
The bill expands the scope of the funding deposit account to include cost-of-living increases and introduces a new specific payment program for eligible retirees and beneficiaries.
FISCAL

Removed the prohibition on using the funding deposit account to pay cost-of-living increases, allowing these payments to be charged against that account.

Authorized a one-time $2,000 payment to each eligible retiree or beneficiary, funded by the system's deposit account and additional employer contributions if necessary.

ELIGIBILITY

Established eligibility for a nonrecurring lump-sum payment for retirees and beneficiaries who have received benefits for at least one year as of June 30, 2025.

TIMELINE

Set a deadline of August 1, 2025, for the payment of the new supplemental lump-sum amounts.

REQUIREMENT

Repealed the existing statute that prohibited the payment of cost-of-living increases from the funding deposit account.

Floor votes · Senate Jun 1, 2025 · House May 5, 2025

How they voted

310
Passed · 6 other
Total votes 37
Jun 1, 2025
D Democratic11
10 Yea 1
90% Yea
R Republican26
21 Yea 5
80% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
24
Key actions
6
Committee
7
Jun 3, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
lower
Jun 1, 2025
Upper · Passed
Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 28, 2025
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 27, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
May 13, 2025
Committee
Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
upper
May 12, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
May 5, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 24, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (12-0).
lower
Apr 14, 2025
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement.
lower
Feb 25, 2025
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement.
lower
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor

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