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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana Updates Cost-of-Living Adjustments and Employer Contributions for the Assessors' Retirement Fund
Last action · May 29, 2026: Effective date: 05/29/2026.Sponsor: Stephanie Berault
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What This Bill Does
Louisiana House Bill 47 authorizes the board of trustees of the Assessors' Retirement Fund to grant permanent monthly cost-of-living adjustments based on specific system s and investment earnings, while establishing rules for employer contributions and funding deposit accounts.
Retired assessors, beneficiaries, and participating employers face updated rules regarding pension adjustments and contribution rates that affect the financial obligations and benefit payouts of the Louisiana Assessors' Retirement Fund.
- The Assessors' Retirement Fund provides retirement and benefit allowances for tax assessors and their eligible employees across Louisiana. context
- House Bill 47 was enacted during the 2026 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature and signed into law as Act 528. context
Who It Affects
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Retired members and beneficiaries of the Assessors' Retirement Fund
Eligible retirees and beneficiaries may receive cost-of-living adjustments and permanent monthly benefit increases subject to the system's funded ratio and board approval.
Tax assessors and participating employers
Employers are subject to required contribution rates and rules governing employer contributions and funding deposit accounts.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What conditions allow the board to grant a cost-of-living adjustment when the funded ratio is below one hundred percent?
What is the funding deposit account used for?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
25 actions- May 29, 2026HouseEnrolledSigned by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 528.
- May 29, 2026HouseEffective date: 05/29/2026.
- May 28, 2026HouseSent to the Governor for executive approval.
- May 27, 2026HouseEnrolledEnrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- May 27, 2026SenateEnrolledSigned by the President of the Senate.
- May 26, 2026SenateRules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
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- May 26, 2026SenateFloorRead by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
- May 26, 2026HouseReceived from the Senate without amendments.
- May 18, 2026SenateRules suspended.
- May 18, 2026SenateIntroducedRead by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- May 13, 2026SenateFloorReported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- May 12, 2026SenateIntroducedRead by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- May 11, 2026SenateCommitteeReported favorably.
- Apr 14, 2026SenateIntroducedRead by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- Apr 13, 2026SenateCommitteeReported favorably.
- Mar 31, 2026SenateCommitteeRead second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement.
- Mar 30, 2026SenateReceived in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- Mar 26, 2026HouseFloorRead third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
- Mar 25, 2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 03/26/2026.
- Mar 24, 2026HouseFloorRead by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- Mar 23, 2026HouseCommitteeReported favorably (9-0).
- Mar 9, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement.
- Jan 23, 2026HousePrefiled.
- Jan 23, 2026HouseCommitteeUnder the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement.
- Jan 23, 2026HouseFirst appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/23/2026.
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Restructuring of Retirement Fund Adjustments
The legislation repeals several older statutory subsections relating to retirement funds while establishing new criteria for board-granted cost-of-living adjustments tied directly to system funded ratios.
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0–100- Significance60How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
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