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+type: "Bill"
+title: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to Firefighters' Retirement System's Deferred Retirement Option Plan and unfunded accrued liability (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
+description: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to Firefighters' Retirement System's Deferred Retirement Option Plan and unfunded accrued liability (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 29"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 29 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Patrick O. Jefferson"]
+version_count: 11
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-02-25"
+last_action: "2021-06-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88dd1a1a-68aa-45da-9f0c-db8844c8dd81"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239804"
+source_hash: "7e0ca756b74537996c4c7871daa385a025533c2786e397a2b78153e998451d5c"
+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 (2021) — RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to Firefighters' Retirement System's Deferred Retirement Option Plan and unfunded accrued liability (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=1200973)
+2. **HB29 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235432)
+3. **HB29 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221998)
+4. **HB29 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224733)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1247, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214442)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1292, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214940)
+7. **House Committee Amendment, #1498, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216314)
+8. **House Committee Amendment, #2430, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221984)
+9. **House Floor Amendment, #2580, Jefferson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222608)
+10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2512, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227415)
+11. **HB29 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232546)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#691) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1009) — **89–1** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#439) — **75–15** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-14** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
+- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 250. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-06-07** Read by title, roll called, yeas 89, nays 1, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2021-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/07/2021.
+- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2021-06-02** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-05-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-05-25** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-24** Reported with amendments.
+- **2021-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2021-05-13** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 74, nays 15. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-05-10** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2021.
+- **2021-05-10** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-05-06** Reported with amendments (7-0).
+- **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.
+- **2021-02-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-25** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/88dd1a1a-68aa-45da-9f0c-db8844c8dd81`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+