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+type: "Bill"
+title: "RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL EMP: Provides for the optional selection of payment of survivor benefits for a surviving spouse of a member of the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
+description: "RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL EMP: Provides for the optional selection of payment of survivor benefits for a surviving spouse of a member of the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 29"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 29 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kevin Pearson"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-01-25"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/baf38381-bc2e-492a-960a-e79200fe1ee2"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233097"
+source_hash: "8da789a03a247f0f80a3d69de7be9065670767818db48691dd0de0b9cb7da628"
+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 29 (2018) — RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL EMP: Provides for the optional selection of payment of survivor benefits for a surviving spouse of a member of the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN NO IMPACT APV)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB29 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1061540)
+2. **HB29 Act 185** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1099041)
+3. **HB29 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075496)
+4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2694, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1086991)
+5. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2828, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1087809)
+6. **HB29 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094428)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#660) — **37–0** (pass) · legislature
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#92) — **83–0** (pass) · legislature
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#796) — **92–1** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kevin Pearson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
+- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 185. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2018-05-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2018-05-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 1, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2018-05-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/08/18.
+- **2018-05-01** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2018-05-01** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2018-04-18** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2018-04-17** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2018-04-16** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
+- **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 83, nays 0. 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2018-03-15** Reported favorably (7-0).
+- **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/baf38381-bc2e-492a-960a-e79200fe1ee2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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