---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/STATE EMPS: Provides relative to the payment of health insurance premiums for certain retirees of the Hazardous Duty Services Plan in the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)"
description: "RETIREMENT/STATE EMPS: Provides relative to the payment of health insurance premiums for certain retirees of the Hazardous Duty Services Plan in the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 29"
citation: "Louisiana HB 29 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert Johnson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 29
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d5d3b9c-1209-48e1-918a-c864f1fb41eb"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235656"
source_hash: "0f01b94d0b36726e1ee6f5d249ec9ddd10cc021a5686045a83558b23ff5e4987"
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 (2019) — RETIREMENT/STATE EMPS: Provides relative to the payment of health insurance premiums for certain retirees of the Hazardous Duty Services Plan in the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE 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=1113250)
2. **HB29 Act 289** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144210)
3. **HB29 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127565)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2695, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138616)
5. **HB29 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142164)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#871) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#774) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#426) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Robert Johnson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: See Act.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 289. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
- **2019-06-03** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-06-03** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/19.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-06-02** 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`
- **2019-05-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-29** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-21** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-20** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/19.
- **2019-05-13** Notice given.
- **2019-05-06** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-05-06** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-05-06** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **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).
- **2019-04-16** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-15** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
- **2019-02-22** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/22/2019.
- **2019-02-22** Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d5d3b9c-1209-48e1-918a-c864f1fb41eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).