---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/CLERKS COURT: Provides relative to benefits of the Clerks' of Court Retirement and Relief Fund (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
description: "RETIREMENT/CLERKS COURT: Provides relative to benefits of the Clerks' of Court Retirement and Relief Fund (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 29"
citation: "Louisiana HB 29 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony Bacala"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-25"
last_action: "2024-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/94ebb3ea-b102-46e6-bda8-aad0022e31a8"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245545"
source_hash: "59dda43770fe32b9b7cb796a91208575e9473768c953148aab1039cc468c7e85"
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 29 (2024) — RETIREMENT/CLERKS COURT: Provides relative to benefits of the Clerks' of Court Retirement and Relief Fund (EN NO IMPACT APV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB29 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1341242)
2. **HB29 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372961)
3. **HB29 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359986)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1916, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358712)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2089, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359952)
6. **HB29 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370246)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#278) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#436) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tony Bacala — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-08** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 12. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-04-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-04-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-04-29** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-17** 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 102, nays 0. 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, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-02** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/26/2024.
- **2024-01-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/94ebb3ea-b102-46e6-bda8-aad0022e31a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).