---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/STATEWIDE SYS: Provides relative to enrollment of employees in the Firefighters' Retirement System or the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)"
description: "RETIREMENT/STATEWIDE SYS: Provides relative to enrollment of employees in the Firefighters' Retirement System or the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 13"
citation: "Louisiana HB 13 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Carpenter"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-22"
last_action: "2020-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3d0395cb-5a6f-4d69-9496-eb88349154c7"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237414"
source_hash: "f430e66800c78a882a74a0c7852d436e5dc59b1bcb0b7db9cf527b1c74c3fad7"
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 13 (2020) — RETIREMENT/STATEWIDE SYS: Provides relative to enrollment of employees in the Firefighters' Retirement System or the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB13 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1151752)
2. **HB13 Act 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180144)
3. **HB13 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170343)
4. **HB13 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176716)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#99) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#398) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barbara Carpenter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-04** Effective date: 06/04/2020.
- **2020-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 3. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-27** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 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, 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`
- **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 (7-0).
- **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/3d0395cb-5a6f-4d69-9496-eb88349154c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).