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+type: "Bill"
+title: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to benefit options for certain retirees of the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
+description: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to benefit options for certain retirees of the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 15"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 15 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Carpenter"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-20"
+last_action: "2019-06-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4b5372a-8bff-442a-b843-b274c1ae0677"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235631"
+source_hash: "303b5642c97a5de341867e647833cbf20483f45a74d48de33a3fa934f7728784"
+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 15 (2019) — RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to benefit options for certain retirees of the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN NO IMPACT APV)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB15 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1112900)
+2. **HB15 Act 89** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143263)
+3. **HB15 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127543)
+4. **HB15 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138366)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#471) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#148) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barbara Carpenter — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
+- **2019-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 89. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-05-27** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2019-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-05-21** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-05-20** Reported favorably.
+- **2019-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2019-05-06** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/19.
+- **2019-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-04-25** Reported favorably (6-0).
+- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-22** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/22/2019.
+- **2019-02-20** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-20** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c4b5372a-8bff-442a-b843-b274c1ae0677`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+