2025 Regular Session
HB8
Provides relative to membership in the Municipal Employees' Retirement System (EN SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE FC)
Legislative progress
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This summary includes only completed milestones supported by recorded actions. It does not predict the next step, and it preserves later committee reassignments, concurrence, conference, veto, and approval actions when they occur.
Partner positions
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Allows a member with five years in MERS who becomes employed in a position where he is no longer eligible for membership in MERS but is eligible for membership in LASERS may remain in MERS in lieu of participation in LASERS.
Recorded floor votes
2 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.
May 5, 2025 · House
House Vote on HB 8 FINAL PASSAGE (#160)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
95 yea–0 nay · 9 absent
June 9, 2025 · Senate
Senate Vote on HB 8 FINAL PASSAGE (#808)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
39 yea–0 nay
Committee referrals
May 6, 2025 · Senate
Retirement
April 23, 2025 · House
Retirement
Instrument history
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This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.
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House Effective date: 06/11/2025.
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House Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 232.
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House Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
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Senate Signed by the President of the Senate.
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House Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
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House Received from the Senate without amendments.
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Senate Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. View roll call
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Senate Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
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Senate Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
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Senate Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
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Senate Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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Senate Reported favorably.
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Senate Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement.
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Senate Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
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House Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. View roll call
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House Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2025.
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House Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
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House Reported favorably (10-0).
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House Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement.
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House Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
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House First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/21/2025.
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House Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date.