---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the suspension of benefits of members of the Firefighters' Retirement System upon reemployment (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
description: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the suspension of benefits of members of the Firefighters' Retirement System upon reemployment (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 12"
citation: "Louisiana HB 12 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Carpenter"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-22"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb3e6642-7a78-4f97-b05d-34d582d27888"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237413"
source_hash: "983f36f84b3e998364e7e90e4db690665fb1709fd1b6b42d19c02030ada9a946"
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 12 (2020) — RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the suspension of benefits of members of the Firefighters' Retirement System upon reemployment (EN NO IMPACT APV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB12 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1151751)
2. **HB12 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181896)
3. **HB12 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170394)
4. **HB12 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173099)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1877, Carpenter, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172470)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1970, Peacock, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175876)
7. **HB12 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178533)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#666) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 12 BY CARPENTER (#98) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#397) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barbara Carpenter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 06/11/2020.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 164. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2020-05-28** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
- **2020-05-28** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-05-27** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-25** Reported favorably.
- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/24/2020.
- **2020-01-22** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-22** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb3e6642-7a78-4f97-b05d-34d582d27888`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).