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+type: "Bill"
+title: "LOCAL RETIREMENT: Provides for Lafayette Consolidated Government Employees. (8/1/24) (EN -$77,000 FC SG RV)"
+description: "LOCAL RETIREMENT: Provides for Lafayette Consolidated Government Employees. (8/1/24) (EN -$77,000 FC SG RV)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 478"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 478 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gerald Boudreaux"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-04-02"
+last_action: "2024-05-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a95539b-2169-46ad-b265-101dd8d0d955"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247151"
+source_hash: "442a1146e6c3c641b104a7fcdb5246286af07063cf3c01aefd1b16c41f175336"
+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 478 (2024) — LOCAL RETIREMENT: Provides for Lafayette Consolidated Government Employees. (8/1/24) (EN -$77,000 FC SG RV)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB478 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361343)
+2. **House Committee Amendment, #3891, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369854)
+3. **House Committee Amendment, #4066, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371026)
+4. **SB478 Act 360** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380835)
+5. **SB478 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363470)
+6. **SB478 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365695)
+7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1712, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363335)
+8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1736, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363442)
+9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1972, Boudreaux, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365610)
+10. **SB478 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377965)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#289) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1231) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR (#1096) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gerald Boudreaux — primary (person)
+- Brach Myers — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
+- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
+- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy Hebert — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-28** Effective date 8/1/2024.
+- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 360. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-28** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/23/2024. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2024-05-23** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-22** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2024-05-21** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-05-21** Called from the calendar.
+- **2024-05-21** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
+- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2024.
+- **2024-05-20** Notice given.
+- **2024-05-20** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2024-05-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2024.
+- **2024-05-07** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2024-05-01** Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-17** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-16** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2024-04-15** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-04-09** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2024-04-08** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-02** Introduced in the Senate. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6a95539b-2169-46ad-b265-101dd8d0d955`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+