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+type: "Bill"
+title: "RETIREMENT/STATE EMPS: Provides relative to the selection of certain optional survivor benefits for members of the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)"
+description: "RETIREMENT/STATE EMPS: Provides relative to the selection of certain optional survivor benefits for members of the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 19"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 19 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Sherman Q. Mack"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-02-19"
+last_action: "2021-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/020e6d9f-bfaa-4c1a-a019-23b9e1451e47"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239783"
+source_hash: "eb521560137276f15e42e38b085fc51bfef5cfe6155c07e37da683040758b518"
+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 19 (2021) — RETIREMENT/STATE EMPS: Provides relative to the selection of certain optional survivor benefits for members of the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB19 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1200132)
+2. **HB19 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235045)
+3. **HB19 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218964)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1205, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214124)
+5. **HB19 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229387)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#243) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#578) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Sherman Q. Mack — primary (person)
+- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
+- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
+- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
+- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 137. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2021-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2021-05-27** 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`
+- **2021-05-19** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-05-18** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-17** Reported favorably.
+- **2021-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-05** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2021-05-05** Read third time by title, 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`
+- **2021-05-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2021.
+- **2021-05-03** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-04-29** Reported favorably (8-0).
+- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/26/2021.
+- **2021-02-22** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-19** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/020e6d9f-bfaa-4c1a-a019-23b9e1451e47`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+