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+type: "Bill"
+title: "STATE POLICE RETIREMENT: Provides certain enhanced survivor benefits and insurance coverage for the spouses and children of members killed in the line of duty."
+description: "STATE POLICE RETIREMENT: Provides certain enhanced survivor benefits and insurance coverage for the spouses and children of members killed in the line of duty."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 23"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 23 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Michael \"Big Mike\" Fesi"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-02-26"
+last_action: "2021-06-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/177f6f74-6a44-4f2a-80cc-48e8500d87aa"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239818"
+source_hash: "392b253c710a348d9ffc6a071c4ec2b68cde0fa54dda80db447d1680aab0b0eb"
+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 23 (2021) — STATE POLICE RETIREMENT: Provides certain enhanced survivor benefits and insurance coverage for the spouses and children of members killed in the line of duty.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB23 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1201224)
+2. **SB23 Act 56** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232061)
+3. **SB23 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214934)
+4. **SB23 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216160)
+5. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #735, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215236)
+6. **SB23 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228642)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CO-AUTHORS (#83) — **30–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#82) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#743) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — primary (person)
+- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
+- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
+- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
+- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
+- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Eddie Lambert — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
+- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
+- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
+- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillip Tarver — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard Nelson — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
+- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
+- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-04** Effective date 6/30/2021.
+- **2021-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 56. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/28/2021. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-05-27** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-05-27** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2021-05-26** Received from the House without amendments.
+- **2021-05-26** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/26/2021.
+- **2021-05-18** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2021-05-13** Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-04-26** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-22** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2021-04-21** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-04-20** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-04-19** Reported favorably.
+- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-26** 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/177f6f74-6a44-4f2a-80cc-48e8500d87aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+