---
type: "Bill"
title: "STATE POLICE RETIREMENT: Provides for the reemployment of retirees. (gov sig)"
description: "STATE POLICE RETIREMENT: Provides for the reemployment of retirees. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 18"
citation: "Louisiana SB 18 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ronnie Johns"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-24"
last_action: "2021-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7de58cab-1def-49d4-98c3-4dd826201301"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239810"
source_hash: "6482f9e3da0d1a6fbeb273a4cf79d690304a412052b407874d6aea024754944d"
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 SB 18 (2021) — STATE POLICE RETIREMENT: Provides for the reemployment of retirees. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB18 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1200999)
2. **SB18 Act 55** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232059)
3. **SB18 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213548)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #497, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213509)
5. **SB18 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228652)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#742) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#36) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ronnie Johns — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-04** Effective date 6/4/2021.
- **2021-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 55. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/28/2021. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-27** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-27** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-05-26** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2021-05-26** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/26/2021.
- **2021-05-18** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-13** Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-04-21** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-20** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-04-19** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-04-14** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-04-13** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-24** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7de58cab-1def-49d4-98c3-4dd826201301`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).