Legislation: batch B — IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/la/2018/hb-26.md

@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL EMP: Provides for participation by certain entities in the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN INCREASE APV)"
+description: "RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL EMP: Provides for participation by certain entities in the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN INCREASE APV)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 26"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 26 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kevin Pearson"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-25"
+last_action: "2018-05-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/913e6d8f-ade0-4bc3-8af2-a73143a0a057"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233094"
+source_hash: "7cbb7ca70f680d2947a53fbbdd791d93a309b382134012c03d12561b9ee414e2"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
+---
+
+# Louisiana HB 26 (2018) — RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL EMP: Provides for participation by certain entities in the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN INCREASE APV)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB26 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1061538)
+2. **HB26 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097906)
+3. **HB26 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075668)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1295, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075611)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #670, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1065647)
+6. **HB26 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1092271)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#672) — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#89) — **84–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kevin Pearson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-11** Effective date: 05/11/2018.
+- **2018-05-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 110. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2018-05-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2018-05-01** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2018-05-01** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2018-04-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2018-04-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2018-04-23** Reported favorably.
+- **2018-03-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-26** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2018-03-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 84, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2018-03-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/22/18.
+- **2018-03-19** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2018-03-15** Reported with amendments (6-0).
+- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/26/2018.
+- **2018-01-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-25** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/913e6d8f-ade0-4bc3-8af2-a73143a0a057`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+