---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to beneficiaries within the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN INCREASE FC SG EX)"
description: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to beneficiaries within the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN INCREASE FC SG EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 28"
citation: "Louisiana HB 28 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daryl Adams"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-25"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36629fa3-7dfb-4f80-b2fb-28eff7059f5c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239803"
source_hash: "a89b7f50509d505cb7aa2c6539a826f6322c268795e08038b1811278de328bad"
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 28 (2021) — RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to beneficiaries within the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN INCREASE FC SG EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB28 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1200972)
2. **HB28 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235048)
3. **HB28 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222039)
4. **HB28 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224835)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1096, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213340)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1097, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213383)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1203, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214048)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #2448, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222018)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #2608, Adams, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222790)
10. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1762, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222227)
11. **HB28 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231281)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#438) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#690) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Daryl Adams — primary (person)
- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Richard Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — 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. 140. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/3/2021.
- **2021-06-03** 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`
- **2021-05-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-25** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-24** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `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, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, 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, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-06** Reported with amendments (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.
- **2021-02-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/36629fa3-7dfb-4f80-b2fb-28eff7059f5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).