---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the board of trustees of the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN +$16,600 FC SG EX)"
description: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the board of trustees of the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN +$16,600 FC SG EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 13"
citation: "Louisiana HB 13 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Emerson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 37
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-18"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0dd05808-7756-4891-ab1c-7583fd575183"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245527"
source_hash: "0a49fbb221c9ad22c82968f92de2b9f68aee1fd50269e9851fc1202cf263ca16"
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 13 (2024) — RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the board of trustees of the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN +$16,600 FC SG EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB13 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1340569)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #5073, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378070)
3. **HB13 Act 672** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382693)
4. **HB13 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359473)
5. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4004, Price, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377136)
6. **HB13 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381212)

## Votes

- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1647) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1380) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1071) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#276) — **86–15** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1417) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Julie Emerson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 672. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-31** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-05-31** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-30** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-05-30** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2024-05-29** Conference committee report received.
- **2024-05-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/30/2024.
- **2024-05-29** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2024-05-29** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2024-05-28** House conferees appointed: Emerson, Bacala, and Carlson.
- **2024-05-28** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2024-05-28** Senate conference committee members appointed: Kleinpeter, Owen, and Price.
- **2024-05-23** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2024-05-23** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/23/2024.
- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-21** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-21** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-14** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-04-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-16** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-15** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-08** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 86, nays 15. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/2024.
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-02** Reported favorably (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-19** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/19/2024.
- **2024-01-18** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-18** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0dd05808-7756-4891-ab1c-7583fd575183`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).