---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL EMP: Provides for the optional selection of payment of survivor benefits for a surviving spouse of a member of the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
description: "RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL EMP: Provides for the optional selection of payment of survivor benefits for a surviving spouse of a member of the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 29"
citation: "Louisiana HB 29 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kevin Pearson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-25"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/baf38381-bc2e-492a-960a-e79200fe1ee2"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233097"
source_hash: "8da789a03a247f0f80a3d69de7be9065670767818db48691dd0de0b9cb7da628"
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 (2018) — RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL EMP: Provides for the optional selection of payment of survivor benefits for a surviving spouse of a member of the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (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=1061540)
2. **HB29 Act 185** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1099041)
3. **HB29 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075496)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2694, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1086991)
5. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2828, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1087809)
6. **HB29 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094428)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#660) — **37–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#92) — **83–0** (pass) · legislature
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#796) — **92–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Kevin Pearson — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 185. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 1, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2018-05-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/08/18.
- **2018-05-01** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2018-05-01** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-18** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-04-17** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-16** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
- **2018-03-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-26** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-03-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 83, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/22/18.
- **2018-03-19** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-15** Reported favorably (7-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/26/2018.
- **2018-01-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/baf38381-bc2e-492a-960a-e79200fe1ee2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).