---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL EMP: Provides relative to elected officials who are members of the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN INCREASE APV)"
description: "RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL EMP: Provides relative to elected officials who are members of the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN INCREASE APV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 27"
citation: "Louisiana HB 27 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sam Jones"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 32
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e97502c-e5eb-4980-a293-d864f9b32256"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235654"
source_hash: "28221fdfb36ace0bb01d54780b003348497886b6913cdba5d798cfd0b114cfbe"
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 27 (2019) — RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL EMP: Provides relative to elected officials who are members of the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN INCREASE APV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB27 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1113223)
2. **HB27 Act 416** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144888)
3. **HB27 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127566)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2096, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135346)
5. **HB27 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143441)

## Votes

- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#754) — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#155) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1030) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#477) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sam Jones — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-07-30** Effective date: 06/20/2019.
- **2019-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 416. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-06** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2019-06-05** Notice the Senate discharged the Conference Committee.
- **2019-06-05** Notice the House discharged the Conference Committee.
- **2019-06-05** Discharged from Conference Committee.
- **2019-06-04** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2019-06-04** Senate conference committee members appointed: Peacock, Mizell, and Appel.
- **2019-06-03** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2019-06-03** House conferees appointed: Jones, Pearson, and Bacala.
- **2019-05-31** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2019-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 91, nays 0, the House refused to concur in the amendments proposed by the Senate.
- **2019-05-31** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2019-05-28** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/19.
- **2019-05-28** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-05-27** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-21** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-20** Reported with amendments.
- **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 98, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was 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.
- **2019-02-22** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1e97502c-e5eb-4980-a293-d864f9b32256`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).