---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/SHERIFFS FUND: Creates an Employee Insurance Fund for the Franklin Parish Sheriff's Office (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)"
description: "RETIREMENT/SHERIFFS FUND: Creates an Employee Insurance Fund for the Franklin Parish Sheriff's Office (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 18"
citation: "Louisiana HB 18 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Neil Riser"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-18"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a110e4c2-528a-424f-b314-4b1ea837db96"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239782"
source_hash: "b03400eeec4c90e37b2f90b3186db6878be316e2c6f8d5785916339735bc6e92"
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 18 (2021) — RETIREMENT/SHERIFFS FUND: Creates an Employee Insurance Fund for the Franklin Parish Sheriff's Office (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB18 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1199932)
2. **HB18 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235044)
3. **HB18 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221909)
4. **HB18 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231653)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#692) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#436) — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Neil Riser — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 136. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-25** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-13** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-10** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2021.
- **2021-05-10** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-06** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-19** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/19/2021.
- **2021-02-18** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-18** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a110e4c2-528a-424f-b314-4b1ea837db96`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).