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Dear Rep. Bruneau:

This office is in receipt of your request for an opinion of the Attorney General relative to the DROP program for judges under R.S. 11:558 as contrasted with the general provisions of the DROP program in the State Employees' Retirement System. Your questions are as follows:

1. Under the provisions of R.S. 11:558(A)(5)(b), are judges who would be eligible to retire either now or at some future date under the DROP plan required to exercise the DROP option before Nov. 21, 1993, or is this provision solely applicable to judges subject to paragraph (A)(5)(a)(i);

2. If the Nov. 21,…