State retirement and pension systems must route specified portions of certain trades through qualifying Louisiana broker-dealers and file required reports.
§266.1. Investment through Louisiana incorporated and domiciled broker-dealer A. The provisions of this Section shall be applicable to every state public retirement or pension system, plan, or fund. B. Each state public retirement or pension system, plan, or fund shall direct at least ten percent of the commissions on all trades of domestic equities in separately, actively managed portfolios and shall direct at least ten percent of all trades of domestic investment grade fixed income investments in separately managed accounts through broker-dealers selected on a best bid and offer basis who have been incorporated and domiciled in or who have had their principal trading operations in Louisiana for at least two years, who are registered and in good standing with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and who have demonstrated the ability to execute institutional domestic equity and fixed income transactions. The broker-dealers defined in this Subsection shall negotiate commission recapture agreements with the systems. The commissions recaptured under any such agreement shall not be a majority of the total value of the commissions required to be directed to the broker-dealers pursuant to the provisions of this Section. C. All trades shall be subject to best efforts and best executions as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. D. The provisions of Subsections A, B, C, and D of this Section shall be implemented as a temporary pilot program and shall be null, void, and of no effect after June 30, 2010. An interim cost analysis of the provisions of this Section shall be performed by the systems and shall be presented to the speaker of the House of Representatives, the president of the Senate, the chairmen of the House of Representatives and Senate committees on retirement, the Public Retirement Systems' Actuarial Committee, and the Commission on Public Retirement at least fourteen days before the convening of the regular legislative session in 2007, and again at least fourteen days before the convening of the regular legislative session in 2010. E. Each system to which this Section applies shall submit to the House and Senate committees on retirement quarterly and annual progress reports detailing the system's investments which comport with the provisions of this Section. Such reports shall continue notwithstanding the June 30, 2010, expiration of Subsections A, B, C, and D of this Section and shall be submitted as follows: (1) An annual report for the year ending June 30, 2004, to be submitted on or before July 30, 2004. (2) Quarterly reports beginning with the quarter ending September 30, 2004, to be submitted no more than thirty days after the end of the quarter. (3) Annual reports beginning with the year ending June 30, 2005, to be submitted no more than thirty days after the end of the year. Acts 2003, No. 788, §1, eff. July 1, 2003; Acts 2004, No. 851, §1, eff. July 12, 2004; Acts 2005, No. 427, §1, eff. July 11, 2005; Acts 2007, No. 367, §1, eff. July 1, 2007; Acts 2010, No. 7, §1, eff. May 19, 2010. NOTE: See Acts 2003, No. 788, §2, relative to extension of pilot program.