---
type: "Bill"
title: "STATE POLICE RETIREMENT: Clarifies and standardizes language relative to certain benefits. (6/30/22) (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
description: "STATE POLICE RETIREMENT: Clarifies and standardizes language relative to certain benefits. (6/30/22) (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 8"
citation: "Louisiana SB 8 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Price"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-28"
last_action: "2022-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f70c106-344c-40db-8c1e-6ad0f36c0c4e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241474"
source_hash: "71af45fb90db21320a74ec7dfc2758bd18f02956fb9dcc3626186b3147bf5872"
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 8 (2022) — STATE POLICE RETIREMENT: Clarifies and standardizes language relative to certain benefits. (6/30/22) (EN NO IMPACT APV)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB8 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1244664)
2. **SB8 Act 247** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1288676)
3. **SB8 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1262842)
4. **SB8 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1265467)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1052, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1262631)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1064, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1262722)
7. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1292, Price, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1264748)
8. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1108, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1263124)
9. **SB8 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1282721)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#131) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1087) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ed Price — primary (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Richard Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-03** Effective date 6/30/2022.
- **2022-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 247. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/27/2022. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-26** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-25** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-24** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2022-05-24** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/24/2022.
- **2022-05-10** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-10** Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2022-05-09** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2022-05-05** Reported favorably (9-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2022-04-06** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-05** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-04-04** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-03-29** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-03-28** Reported with amendments.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-28** 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/0f70c106-344c-40db-8c1e-6ad0f36c0c4e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).