---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT SYSTEMS: Provides for benefit increases for retirees, beneficiaries, and survivors of state retirement systems and the funding therefor. (2/3-CA10s(29)(F)) (gov sig) (EN INCREASE FC SG RE)"
description: "RETIREMENT SYSTEMS: Provides for benefit increases for retirees, beneficiaries, and survivors of state retirement systems and the funding therefor. (2/3-CA10s(29)(F)) (gov sig) (EN INCREASE FC SG RE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 18"
citation: "Louisiana SB 18 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Price"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-02-24"
last_action: "2023-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47c15b0e-b523-4369-a0ce-c2a192eb6337"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243874"
source_hash: "eafd7a6017434f8263388169fef5638c7b938c5e40be1a52c05f4ffae4c4799d"
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 (2023) — RETIREMENT SYSTEMS: Provides for benefit increases for retirees, beneficiaries, and survivors of state retirement systems and the funding therefor. (2/3-CA10s(29)(F)) (gov sig) (EN INCREASE FC SG RE)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB18 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1300962)
2. **SB18 Act 184** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332165)
3. **SB18 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312474)
4. **SB18 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319784)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1101, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317310)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1386, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319308)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #512, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311995)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #532, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312387)
9. **SB18 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328776)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#298) — **37–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#868) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#299) — **17–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ed Price — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Barry Ivey — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-08** Effective date 6/8/2023.
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 184. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-05** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-04** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-01** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-31** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/01/2023.
- **2023-05-24** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-22** Reported favorably (17-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2023-05-18** Rules suspended.
- **2023-05-18** Reported favorably (9-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-16** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-15** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-15** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 1 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-09** Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered reengrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-05-08** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-18** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2023-04-17** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-24** 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/47c15b0e-b523-4369-a0ce-c2a192eb6337`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).