---
type: "Bill"
title: "STATE POLICE RETIREMENT: Provides certain enhanced survivor benefits and insurance coverage for the spouses and children of members killed in the line of duty."
description: "STATE POLICE RETIREMENT: Provides certain enhanced survivor benefits and insurance coverage for the spouses and children of members killed in the line of duty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 23"
citation: "Louisiana SB 23 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael \"Big Mike\" Fesi"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-02-26"
last_action: "2021-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/177f6f74-6a44-4f2a-80cc-48e8500d87aa"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239818"
source_hash: "392b253c710a348d9ffc6a071c4ec2b68cde0fa54dda80db447d1680aab0b0eb"
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 23 (2021) — STATE POLICE RETIREMENT: Provides certain enhanced survivor benefits and insurance coverage for the spouses and children of members killed in the line of duty.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB23 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1201224)
2. **SB23 Act 56** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232061)
3. **SB23 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214934)
4. **SB23 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216160)
5. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #735, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215236)
6. **SB23 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228642)

## Votes

- CO-AUTHORS (#83) — **30–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#82) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#743) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — primary (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Richard Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-04** Effective date 6/30/2021.
- **2021-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 56. `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 99, 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.
- **2021-04-26** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-22** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-04-21** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-04-20** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-04-19** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-26** 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/177f6f74-6a44-4f2a-80cc-48e8500d87aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).