---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/STATE EMPS: Provides relative to the selection of certain optional survivor benefits for members of the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)"
description: "RETIREMENT/STATE EMPS: Provides relative to the selection of certain optional survivor benefits for members of the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 19"
citation: "Louisiana HB 19 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sherman Q. Mack"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-19"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/020e6d9f-bfaa-4c1a-a019-23b9e1451e47"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239783"
source_hash: "eb521560137276f15e42e38b085fc51bfef5cfe6155c07e37da683040758b518"
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 19 (2021) — RETIREMENT/STATE EMPS: Provides relative to the selection of certain optional survivor benefits for members of the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB19 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1200132)
2. **HB19 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235045)
3. **HB19 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218964)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1205, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214124)
5. **HB19 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229387)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#243) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#578) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sherman Q. Mack — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (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. 137. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-19** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-18** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-17** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2021.
- **2021-05-03** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-29** Reported favorably (8-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/26/2021.
- **2021-02-22** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-19** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/020e6d9f-bfaa-4c1a-a019-23b9e1451e47`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).