---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL EMP: Provides for the benefit payable to retired member of the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana upon death of beneficiary (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
description: "RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL EMP: Provides for the benefit payable to retired member of the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana upon death of beneficiary (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 31"
citation: "Louisiana HB 31 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kevin Pearson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-25"
last_action: "2018-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a350746a-b4a6-48c2-8729-967ea7735263"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233099"
source_hash: "25e337ed984c3553b0d616df7dc309c1fc1a8a2044191469994cad93ca31f5b0"
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 31 (2018) — RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL EMP: Provides for the benefit payable to retired member of the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana upon death of beneficiary (EN NO IMPACT APV)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB31 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1061543)
2. **HB31 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1096842)
3. **HB31 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075501)
4. **HB31 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1090711)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#94) — **86–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#562) — **30–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Kevin Pearson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-10** Effective date: 07/01/2018.
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 44. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-04-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-04-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-04-26** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-04-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-04-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-23** Reported favorably.
- **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 86, 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/a350746a-b4a6-48c2-8729-967ea7735263`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).