Key Votes
HB 519 - Limiting "Retire-Rehire" Benefits in Public Schools - Key Vote
Louisiana Key Votes
Stages
- July 2, 2010 Executive Signed
- June 20, 2010 House Concurrence Vote Passed
- June 17, 2010 Senate Bill Passed
- April 26, 2010 House Bill Passed
- March 15, 2010 Introduced
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Issues
Stage Details
Legislation - Signed (Executive) - July 2, 2010
Title: Limiting "Retire-Rehire" Benefits in Public Schools
Signed by Governor Bobby Jindal
Legislation - Concurrence Vote Passed (House) (71-19) - June 20, 2010 (Key vote)
Title: Limiting "Retire-Rehire" Benefits in Public Schools
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to concur with Senate amendments and pass a bill that limits a retired teacher's ability to collect retirement benefits after being rehired beginning July 1, 2010.
Highlights:
-Prohibits retired teachers from receiving retirement benefits during a period of reemployment, unless the superintendent and personnel director of the school have certified to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Board of Trustees that a shortage of teachers exists in the critical shortage area in which the retired teacher was hired to work (Sec. 1).
-Defines "retired teacher" as a full-time or part-time classroom teacher who teaches any student in kindergarten through 12th grade in a critical teacher shortage area (Sec. 1).
-Prohibits the extension of benefits to members not defined as retired teachers for the duration of their reemployment (Sec. 1).
-Prohibits the superintendent and personnel director of a school from certifying that a critical shortage area exists prior to advertising the position in the official journal of the employer's governing authority on at least 2 occasions (Sec. 1).
-Requires a certified applicant who is not a retiree to be hired for a position before any certified retired teacher is employed, unless fewer than 3 teachers certified in the critical shortage area have applied (Sec. 1).
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (29-0) - June 17, 2010
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (85-10) - April 26, 2010
Legislation - Introduced (House) - March 15, 2010
Title: Limiting "Retire-Rehire" Benefits in Public Schools
Sponsors
- Patrick 'Page' Cortez (LA - R) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Bobby G. Badon (LA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Regina Ashford Barrow (LA - D)
- Timothy G. 'Tim' Burns (LA - R)
- Henry L. Burns (LA - R)
- Stephen F. 'Steve' Carter (LA - R)
- Patrick Connick (LA - R)
- Jerry J. 'Truck' Gisclair (LA - D)
- Rickey Hardy (LA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Michael L. Jackson (LA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Charles E. 'Chuck' Kleckley (LA - R)
- Nancy R. Landry (LA - R)
- Nicholas J. 'Nick' Lorusso (LA - R)
- J. Kevin Pearson (LA - R)
- Joel C. Robideaux (LA - R)
- Patricia Haynes Smith (LA - D)
- Jane H. Smith (LA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Major Thibaut Jr. (LA - D)
- Jim Tucker (LA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Michael A. 'Mike' Walsworth (LA - R)
