---
type: "Bill"
title: "DISTRICT ATTORNEYS: Provides relative to group health insurance for retired district attorneys"
description: "DISTRICT ATTORNEYS: Provides relative to group health insurance for retired district attorneys"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 80"
citation: "Louisiana HB 80 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Troy D. Romero"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-14"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/01da63ce-1a3d-4e81-a6dd-44c7a6a694d0"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237503"
source_hash: "4ec303af0e857aff3a72cea980774cfddfcce968a1555cce2583e4703e6bfd63"
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 80 (2020) — DISTRICT ATTORNEYS: Provides relative to group health insurance for retired district attorneys

## Version chain

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

1. **HB80 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1154951)
2. **HB80 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181901)
3. **HB80 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165539)
4. **HB80 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170510)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1013, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1164485)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1138, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165529)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1455, Carrier, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169143)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #1616, Romero, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170190)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1651, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174041)
10. **HB80 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178514)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#643) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#294) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#23) — **89–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Troy D. Romero — 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. 168. `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 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2020-05-27** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
- **2020-05-21** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-05-21** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-19** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-11** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-07** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-03-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/20.
- **2020-03-12** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-03-12** Rules suspended.
- **2020-03-12** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/14/2020.
- **2020-02-14** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/01da63ce-1a3d-4e81-a6dd-44c7a6a694d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).