LAE Government Relations Specialist Shane Riddle and the entire lobby team will be keeping a close eye on the following bills:

Education (Click on this link to upload weekly tracking grids of the following high priority education bills)

HB 101     SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS: Limits applicability of laws relative to a school bus operator becoming a regular and permanent employee of the employing school board and provides relative to removal of certain operators.

LAE position: Strongly Oppose

HB 421    SCHOOLS/CHARTER: Provides relative to charter schools and corporate entities that make major donations to such schools.

LAE position: Strongly Oppose

HB 454     SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Exempts, under specified fiscal conditions, a local school board from complying with requirements that the board grant requests for certain kinds of leave.

LAE position: Strongly Oppose

HB 499     SCHOOLS: Prohibits the transfer of certain schools to the Recovery School District and provides for memorandums of understanding.

LAE position: Support

HB 559     SCHOOLS/BOARDS: Requires public school governing authorities to publish certain information on their websites.

LAE position: Amend Support

HB 580     TEXTBOOKS/MATERIALS: Provides relative to textbooks and other instructional materials.

LAE position: Monitor Support

HB 84      BESE: (Constitutional Amendment) Provides for the appointing authority and qualifications of appointed board members of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.

LAE position: Support

HB 96      BESE: (Constitutional Amendment) Provides for a nine-member State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.

LAE position: Support

SB 201    EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY: Delays implementation of a system to assign performance-based letter grades to public schools and school districts. (gov sig)

LAE position: Support

SB 216    SCHOOLS: Provides for the creation of community advisory boards for schools in the Recovery School District. (gov sig)

LAE position: Support

SB 248    EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY: Clarifies the process for returning back to the school system those schools that have been transferred to the RSD that are no longer academically unacceptable. (gov sig)

LAE position: Monitor

SB 35     EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY: Delays implementation of a system to assign performance-based letter grades to public schools and school districts. (gov sig)

LAE position: Support

SB 67     STUDENTS: Provides relative to school discipline policies. (8/15/11)

LAE position: Monitor

Retirement (Click on this link to upload weekly tracking grids of the following high priority retirement bills.)

HB 149    RETIREMENT/TEACHERS: Relative to the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (TRSL), excludes from membership employees of the Louisiana High School Athletic Association employed on or after July 1, 2011.

LAE position: Neutral

HB 151     RETIREMENT/TEACHERS: Relative to the Teachers' Retirement System of La. (TRSL), allows certain reemployed retirees to receive retirement benefits during reemployment.

LAE position: Support Amend

HB 369     RETIREMENT/TEACHERS: Relative to the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (TRSL), allows certain reemployed retirees to receive retirement benefits upon reemployment.

LAE position: Support

HB 377     RETIREMENT/STATE-STWIDE: Relative to state and statewide retirement systems, provides with respect to earnable compensation and service credit for any member of such a system elected to the legislature.

LAE position: Neutral Monitor

HB 384     RETIREMENT/FUNDING: (Constitutional Amendment) Provides for a minimum of ten percent of nonrecurring revenue be applied toward reducing the balance of the unfunded accrued liability of the state retirement systems.

LAE position: Monitor Support

HB 386     INSURANCE/LIFE: Authorizes state retirement systems to have an insurable interest in their members and retirees so as to effectuate life insurance upon them.

LAE position: Oppose

HB 417     RETIREMENT/TEACHERS: Relative to the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (TRSL), allows retirees rehired as substitute teachers to collect retirement benefits during reemployment under certain circumstances.

LAE position: Support Amend

HB 426     RETIREMENT/STATE EMPS: Provides relative to membership of the LASERS, TRSL, and LSERS boards of trustees.

LAE position: Oppose

HB 435     RETIREMENT/FUNDING: Provides that a minimum of 10% of nonrecurring revenue be applied toward reducing the balance of the unfunded accrued liability of the state retirement systems.

LAE position: Monitor Support

HB 479     RETIREMENT/CONTRIBUTIONS: Relative to members of state retirement systems, increases employee contributions.

LAE position: Oppose

HB 495     RETIREMENT/FUNDING: Relative to funding of state retirement systems, provides for changes in the remitting of payments on the Unfunded Accrued Liability (UAL).

LAE position: Monitor Support

HB 530     RETIREMENT/STATE SYSTEMS: Relative to state retirement systems, increases employee contributions and average compensation for calculation of benefits.

LAE position: Monitor Oppose

SB 10     TEACHERS RETIREMENT: Provides for permanent benefit increases for retirees payable from the experience account. (2/3 - CA 10s29(F)) (8/15/2011) (OR INCREASE APV)

LAE position: Monitor Neutral

SB 12     RETIREMENT BENEFITS: Provides relative to eligibility and benefit calculation for state and statewide retirement systems. (7/1/11)

LAE position: Strongly Oppose

SB 6     TEACHERS RETIREMENT: Provides for continued payment of the unfunded accrued liability portion of employer contributions after participation ceases. (6/30/11)

LAE position: Support