---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/PAROCHIAL EMP: Provides relative to the frequency of plan experience studies for the Parochial Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN DECREASE FC SG EX)"
description: "RETIREMENT/PAROCHIAL EMP: Provides relative to the frequency of plan experience studies for the Parochial Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN DECREASE FC SG EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4"
citation: "Louisiana HB 4 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony Bacala"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-21"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/13646934-cf9c-4e10-a91d-48d14e3d7fa3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237405"
source_hash: "cf19bf45461630871020e71a11072c9cdfbb353a5548621c23d772a753d62206"
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 4 (2020) — RETIREMENT/PAROCHIAL EMP: Provides relative to the frequency of plan experience studies for the Parochial Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN DECREASE FC SG EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB4 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1151506)
2. **HB4 Act 247** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182318)
3. **HB4 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170333)
4. **HB4 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176709)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#394) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#96) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tony Bacala — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 247. `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 32 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 96, 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 (11-0).
- **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.
- **2020-01-21** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-21** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/13646934-cf9c-4e10-a91d-48d14e3d7fa3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).