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+type: "Bill"
+title: "RETIREMENT BENEFITS: Provides relative to investment of lump-sum benefits. (6/30/19) (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
+description: "RETIREMENT BENEFITS: Provides relative to investment of lump-sum benefits. (6/30/19) (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 16"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 16 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gerald Long"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-22"
+last_action: "2019-06-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2cfdbb0b-4668-49b5-881a-1c897ca436e4"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235651"
+source_hash: "f2da4250f42343d1be46ec4485860ef28eaa5e39129c3b0b76c261b67e22805a"
+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 SB 16 (2019) — RETIREMENT BENEFITS: Provides relative to investment of lump-sum benefits. (6/30/19) (EN NO IMPACT APV)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB16 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1113202)
+2. **SB16 Act 78** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143171)
+3. **SB16 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124522)
+4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #579, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124161)
+5. **SB16 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137762)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#72) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#542) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gerald Long — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-04** Effective date 6/30/2019.
+- **2019-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 78. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-30** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-05-28** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-05-28** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-05-27** Received from the House without amendments.
+- **2019-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/19.
+- **2019-05-08** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2019-05-02** Reported favorably (7-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-04-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-17** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2019-04-17** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-04-16** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-04-15** Reported with amendments.
+- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-22** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2cfdbb0b-4668-49b5-881a-1c897ca436e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+