---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/LOCAL: Provides for membership of certain new hires of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government in the Parochial Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
description: "RETIREMENT/LOCAL: Provides for membership of certain new hires of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government in the Parochial Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 15"
citation: "Louisiana HB 15 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jean-Paul Coussan"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-23"
last_action: "2020-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cdf15374-3381-4a01-ac56-7e287c4d7f41"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237420"
source_hash: "79181a63fc3ba4b04ea55fea9629f96bb9284a8f493fd3cd499ff4544cb35d13"
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 15 (2020) — RETIREMENT/LOCAL: Provides for membership of certain new hires of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government in the Parochial Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN NO IMPACT APV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB15 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1151861)
2. **HB15 Act 298** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182375)
3. **HB15 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170353)
4. **HB15 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173268)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1612, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170150)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #1869, Bacala, Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171749)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1917, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175562)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2084, Talbot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176495)
9. **HB15 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178553)

## Votes

- HB 15 BY COUSSAN (#101) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#667) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#400) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jean-Paul Coussan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-13** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 298. `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 94, 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 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** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-25** Reported with amendments.
- **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 97, 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 (9-0).
- **2020-05-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-31** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
- **2020-01-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/24/2020.
- **2020-01-23** 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/cdf15374-3381-4a01-ac56-7e287c4d7f41`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).