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+type: "Bill"
+title: "RETIREMENT/TEACHERS: Provides relative to the optional retirement plan in the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE APV)"
+description: "RETIREMENT/TEACHERS: Provides relative to the optional retirement plan in the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE APV)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 24"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 24 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Tony Bacala"]
+version_count: 14
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-27"
+last_action: "2025-06-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3a8157e-66e3-4796-abae-faae593454c7"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247908"
+source_hash: "e738a9e8967468a9580e63df715659b1c824b20526f59c07c5362e188d463827"
+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 24 (2025) — RETIREMENT/TEACHERS: Provides relative to the optional retirement plan in the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE APV)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB24 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1395008)
+2. **HB24 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422239)
+3. **HB24 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408436)
+4. **HB24 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413886)
+5. **HB24 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411953)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1388, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406636)
+7. **House Committee Amendment, #1526, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407585)
+8. **House Committee Amendment, #1653, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408361)
+9. **House Committee Amendment, #1916, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409520)
+10. **House Committee Amendment, #2106, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410696)
+11. **House Committee Amendment, #2276, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411865)
+12. **House Committee Amendment, #733, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1397766)
+13. **House Floor Amendment, #2427, Bacala, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412281)
+14. **HB24 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418539)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#320) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#399) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Tony Bacala — primary (person)
+- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
+- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
+- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-04** Effective date: 07/01/2025.
+- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 47. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2025-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2025-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-05-27** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-20** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2025-05-19** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-14** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-13** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2025-05-12** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-05-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2025.
+- **2025-05-07** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-06** Reported with amendments (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-28** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
+- **2025-04-24** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-28** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/28/2025.
+- **2025-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b3a8157e-66e3-4796-abae-faae593454c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+