§ 42:1121 — Assistance to certain persons after termination of public service

Louisiana § 42:1121

• Jurisdiction: Louisiana
• Title 42: Public Officers and Employees

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§1121. Assistance to certain persons after termination of public service
A.(1) No former agency head or elected official shall, for a period of two years
following the termination of his public service as the head of such agency or as an elected
public official serving in such agency, assist another person, for compensation, in a
transaction, or in an appearance in connection with a transaction, involving that agency or
render any service on a contractual basis to or for such agency.
(2) No former member of a board or commission shall, for a period of two years
following the termination of his public service on such board or commission, contract with,
be employed in any capacity by, or be appointed to any position by that board or commission.
B.(1) General rule for other public employees. No former public employee shall, for
a period of two years following the termination of his public employment, assist another
person, for compensation, in a transaction, or in an appearance in connection with a
transaction in which such former public employee participated at any time during his public
employment and involving the governmental entity by which he was formerly employed, or
for a period of two years following termination of his public employment, render, any service
which such former public employee had rendered to the agency during the term of his public
employment on a contractual basis, regardless of the parties to the contract, to, for, or on
behalf of the agency with which he was formerly employed.
(2) Nothing in this Section shall prohibit a former employee of the Louisiana School
for the Deaf from rendering sign language and interpreting services on a contractual basis to
or for the Louisiana School for the Deaf.
(3) Nothing in this Section shall prohibit a former sexual assault nurse examiner
from rendering services on a contractual basis to or for his former public employer.
C. No legal entity in which a former public servant is an officer, director, trustee,
partner, or employee shall, for a period of two years following the termination of his public
service, assist another person, for compensation, in a transaction, or in an appearance in
connection with a transaction in which such public servant at any time participated during
his public service and involving the agency by which he was formerly employed or in which
he formerly held office.
D. No former public servant shall share in any compensation received by another
person for assistance which such former public servant is prohibited from rendering by this
Section.
E. Termination of public service. For the purposes of Subsections B and C of this
Section, termination of public employment or service means the termination of employment
with the agency which employed the public employee, or the termination of public service
with the agency in which an elected official served, when he participated in the transaction.
F.(1) Each officer and employee of the office of financial institutions, including the
commissioner, shall be prohibited for a period of two years following the termination of his
employment with the office of financial institutions from:
(a) Assisting another person for compensation in a particular transaction or in an
appearance in connection with a particular transaction for which the officer or employee had
responsibility to effectively direct the action of the office of financial institutions at any time
during his employment and which involves the office of financial institutions; or
(b) Rendering on a contractual basis to or for the office of financial institutions any
service which the officer or employee rendered to the office of financial institutions during
his employment there.
(2) However, the provisions of Paragraph (1) of this Subsection shall not apply to
post-employment work done for or with a federally chartered agency regulating financial
institutions or their holding companies.
(3) A legal entity in which a former officer or employee of the office of financial
institutions is an officer, director, trustee, partner, or employee shall be prohibited for a
period of two years following the termination of his employment, from assisting another
person for compensation in a particular transaction or in an appearance in connection with
a particular transaction for which such officer or employee had responsibility to effectively
direct the action of the office of financial institutions at any time during his employment and
which involves the office of financial institutions. This restriction shall not apply to a legal
entity which is a federally chartered agency regulating financial institutions or their holding
companies. Subject to the provisions of Paragraphs (1), (2), and (4) of this Subsection, such
a legal entity may continue to participate in particular transactions commenced prior to
termination of the employment with the office of financial institutions of the former officer
or employee.
(4) No former officer or employee shall share in any compensation received by
another person for assistance which such former officer or employee is prohibited from
rendering by this Subsection.
(5) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, this Subsection shall be applicable
to each officer and employee of the office of financial institutions and shall be the sole
controlling provision on post-employment restrictions for such officers and employees.
G. Nothing in this Section shall prohibit a former member of a municipal governing
authority from being appointed to fill a vacancy in the office of mayor regardless of the
amount of time that has elapsed since the termination of the former member's service as a
member of the municipal governing authority.
H. Nothing in this Section shall prohibit a licensed physician who is a former
member of the governing authority of a hospital service district or any legal entity in which
such licensed physician is an officer, director, trustee, partner, or employee from being
employed by or from contracting with the hospital service district or any entity over which
the governing authority of the hospital service district exercises supervision or jurisdiction
to perform professional health care services directly related to his expertise as a licensed
physician, from contracting with the hospital service district or any entity over which the
governing authority of the hospital service district exercises supervision or jurisdiction for
the purchase or lease of property related to the licensed physician's health care practice, or
from contracting with the hospital service district or any entity over which the governing
authority of the hospital service district exercises supervision or jurisdiction for the sale of
the physician's practice.
I. The provisions of this Section shall not prohibit a former chief indigent defender
as provided in R.S. 15:161(H), or a legal entity in which the former chief indigent defender
owns an interest, from donating office space, leasing office space at a fair market value, or
selling office space at fair market value following an appraisal to the district public
defender's office if the transaction is deemed necessary for the continuity of the provision of
public defender services within a judicial district at the same location and the transaction is
approved by the Louisiana Public Defender Board or its successor.
J. The provisions of this Section shall not prohibit a former commissioner of the
Ernest N. Morial - New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority with at least thirty years of work
experience in hospitality or hotel management serving as a commissioner on January 1, 2025,
from being employed by the authority regardless of when his public service terminated upon
a finding by the board of commissioners of the authority that circumstances require such
action. The provisions of this Subsection shall terminate on December 31, 2025.

Legislative History

Acts 1979, No. 443, §1, eff. April 1, 1980; H.C.R. No. 45, 1983 R.S.; H.C.R. No. 237, 1984 R.S.; Acts 1987, No. 893, §1; HCR No. 203, 1988 R.S., eff. July 8, 1988; Acts 1993, No. 445, §1; Acts 1997, No. 745, §1; Acts 1997, No. 944, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1059, §1; Acts 1999, No. 274, §1; Acts 2005, No. 140, §1, eff. June 28, 2005, §2, eff. Aug. 1, 2007; Acts 2006, No. 89, §1, eff. May 25, 2006, and §2, eff. Aug. 1, 2008; Acts 2006, No. 525, §1; Acts 2006, No. 607, §1; Acts 2007, No. 74, §1, eff. June 22, 2007; Acts 2007, No. 74, §2, eff. August 1, 2009; Acts 2012, No. 724, §1, eff. June 11, 2012; Acts 2015, No. 450, §1, eff. July 1, 2015; Acts 2015, No. 450, §2, eff. July 1, 2017; Acts 2022, No. 184, §1; Acts 2025, No. 184, §1; Acts 2025, No. 301, §1, eff. June 11, 2025.