RETIREMENT/STATE EMPS: Provides relative to the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System (EN NO IMPACT APV)
HB 32 amends Louisiana's State Employees' Retirement System to clarify key rules for current and former state employees. It specifies that disability retirees returning to work before age 60 lose their retirement allowance temporarily but regain full service credit for eligibility (not benefit calculations), and requires restoration of prior service certificates. The bill also strengthens exemptions protecting retirement benefits from seizure (except for specific tax cases), adds procedures for correcting administrative errors, and updates benefit calculation rules - particularly for peace officers in the Department of Public Safety and Corrections. Additionally, it mandates that spouse consent is required for certain annuity options, or the system defaults to a joint survivor benefit.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2026
Committee Review
Apr 2026
House Passage
Apr 2026
Senate Passage
Apr 2026
Signed into Law
Apr 2026
Introduced Jan 22, 2026
Signed Apr 30, 2026
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What changed between versions
HB32 Original
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HB32 Act
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3 edits
MINOR
The bill was enrolled and finalized as Act No. 25, removing the original 'State Employees' Retirement' header to reflect its final status. Substantively, the law now explicitly extends disability retirement eligibility rules to all disability retirees regardless of when they qualified, and it recalculates base benefits for specific peace officers who participated in the Deferred Retirement Option Plan between 2006 and 2007.
Scope change
The bill's scope was clarified by removing the 'State Employees' Retirement' header, and its applicability was expanded to include all disability retirees under specific service credit rules.
ELIGIBILITY
Extended the rule counting disability periods as accredited service to all disability retirees, regardless of the date they qualified.
Added a new provision to recalculate base benefits for peace officers employed before 2006 who were in the Deferred Retirement Option Plan as of 2007.
TECHNICAL
Removed the 'State Employees' Retirement' header and updated document identifiers to reflect the enrolled Act status.
Floor votes · Senate Apr 22, 2026 · House Apr 1, 2026
How they voted
37–0
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 40
Apr 22, 2026
D
Democratic12
83% Yea
R
Republican28
96% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
20
Key actions
4
Committee
5
Apr 22, 2026
Upper · Passed
Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
Apr 14, 2026
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
Apr 13, 2026
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 1, 2026
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Mar 26, 2026
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (9-0).
lower
Mar 9, 2026
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement.
lower
Jan 22, 2026
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Peter Egan
RRepublican
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