---
type: "Bill"
title: "STATE EMPLOYEE RET: Removes certain future employees of the Regional Transit Authority from the system and state civil service. (6/30/19) (EN DECREASE APV)"
description: "STATE EMPLOYEE RET: Removes certain future employees of the Regional Transit Authority from the system and state civil service. (6/30/19) (EN DECREASE APV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 9"
citation: "Louisiana SB 9 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Karen Carter Peterson"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b695310c-aeae-441e-90f2-859d6904979a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235644"
source_hash: "e5af7b18de0cc3e159c3781cb2be550b75441b2d7689871bbcaf6ea041934a5d"
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 SB 9 (2019) — STATE EMPLOYEE RET: Removes certain future employees of the Regional Transit Authority from the system and state civil service. (6/30/19) (EN DECREASE APV)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB9 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1113133)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #3129, House Proposed, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140646)
3. **House Floor Amendment, #3439, Abramson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139404)
4. **SB9 Act 264** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144062)
5. **SB9 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124492)
6. **SB9 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134678)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1999, Peterson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134599)
8. **SB9 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143311)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#772) — **88–0** (pass) · lower
- REJECT (#866) — **35–1** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT (#958) — **32–1** (pass) · upper
- MOTION TO ADOPT (#1011) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#364) — **35–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Karen Carter Peterson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date 6/30/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 264. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-06** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-05** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-05** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2019-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/19.
- **2019-06-04** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 32 yeas and 1 nays.
- **2019-06-04** Rules suspended.
- **2019-06-03** Conference committee report received.
- **2019-06-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/04/19.
- **2019-06-03** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2019-06-03** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2019-06-03** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2019-06-03** House conferees appointed: Abramson, Pearson, and Carpenter.
- **2019-06-03** Senate conference committee members appointed: Peterson, Peacock, and Appel.
- **2019-06-03** Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 35 yeas and 1 nays.
- **2019-06-03** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2019-06-01** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2019-05-31** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2019-05-31** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/31/19.
- **2019-05-28** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-22** Reported favorably (6-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-20** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-05-15** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 1 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-15** Called from the Calendar.
- **2019-04-17** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2019-04-16** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-04-15** Reported favorably.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b695310c-aeae-441e-90f2-859d6904979a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).