---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Allows members of the Firefighters' Retirement System to allocate Deferred Retirement Option Plan funds between two separate interest bearing accounts (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
description: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Allows members of the Firefighters' Retirement System to allocate Deferred Retirement Option Plan funds between two separate interest bearing accounts (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 40"
citation: "Louisiana HB 40 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barry Ivey"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-26"
last_action: "2018-05-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ded1e654-fcd0-4086-9c3c-92dc96bee9ec"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233112"
source_hash: "3698e6b46dd6e2fdd0cfd00b9f7894ed6c661086be2e312df1bcc9b5f96169ed"
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 40 (2018) — RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Allows members of the Firefighters' Retirement System to allocate Deferred Retirement Option Plan funds between two separate interest bearing accounts (EN NO IMPACT APV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB40 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1061708)
2. **HB40 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097913)
3. **HB40 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075700)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1173, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075667)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #461, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1062487)
6. **HB40 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1092311)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#677) — **37–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#98) — **85–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Barry Ivey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-11** Effective date: 07/01/2018.
- **2018-05-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 114. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-01** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-05-01** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-25** 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 85, 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, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-15** Reported with amendments (7-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/26/2018.
- **2018-01-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ded1e654-fcd0-4086-9c3c-92dc96bee9ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).