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+type: "Bill"
+title: "RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to membership and benefits of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)"
+description: "RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to membership and benefits of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 21"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 21 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Tony Bacala"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-24"
+last_action: "2020-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e95fba43-da14-4483-b8cd-f194cfc1d2d0"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237426"
+source_hash: "98916253fc55a002c339e9b07bc85da510ee33716c6798630795cb6f7632eb14"
+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 21 (2020) — RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to membership and benefits of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB21 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1152089)
+2. **HB21 Act 249** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182320)
+3. **HB21 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170493)
+4. **HB21 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173217)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1425, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169070)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1613, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170438)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #1820, Bacala, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172440)
+8. **HB21 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176726)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#403) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- HB 21 BY BACALA (#105) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Tony Bacala — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 07/01/2020.
+- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 249. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2020-05-27** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2020-05-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2020-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2020-05-25** Reported favorably.
+- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
+- **2020-05-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-05-07** Reported with amendments (11-0).
+- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/24/2020.
+- **2020-01-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-24** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e95fba43-da14-4483-b8cd-f194cfc1d2d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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