---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to benefit options for certain retirees of the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
description: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to benefit options for certain retirees of the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 15"
citation: "Louisiana HB 15 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Carpenter"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-20"
last_action: "2019-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4b5372a-8bff-442a-b843-b274c1ae0677"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235631"
source_hash: "303b5642c97a5de341867e647833cbf20483f45a74d48de33a3fa934f7728784"
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 15 (2019) — RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to benefit options for certain retirees of the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN NO IMPACT APV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB15 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1112900)
2. **HB15 Act 89** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143263)
3. **HB15 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127543)
4. **HB15 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138366)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#471) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#148) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara Carpenter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 89. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-27** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-21** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-20** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-06** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/19.
- **2019-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-25** Reported favorably (6-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/22/2019.
- **2019-02-20** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c4b5372a-8bff-442a-b843-b274c1ae0677`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).