---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to the reemployment of retired members of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)"
description: "RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to the reemployment of retired members of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 18"
citation: "Louisiana HB 18 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony Bacala"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-26"
last_action: "2022-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58480fdc-19ba-4d6b-a7c2-6a3ff139b873"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241454"
source_hash: "9c744d951f70c675508dc8bcf2fa140111b00732bc704f27450e389bf391e505"
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 (2022) — RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to the reemployment of retired members of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)

## 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=1244373)
2. **HB18 Act 200** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286762)
3. **HB18 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1271752)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1998, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1265286)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2894, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1271694)
6. **HB18 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1282979)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#802) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#542) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tony Bacala — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-31** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-31** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 200. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-26** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-25** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-24** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-24** 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`
- **2022-05-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-17** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-16** Reported favorably.
- **2022-05-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-03** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-05-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/02/2022.
- **2022-04-21** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-20** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-28** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/28/2022.
- **2022-01-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/58480fdc-19ba-4d6b-a7c2-6a3ff139b873`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).