---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the board of trustees of the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN +$21,235 FC SG EX)"
description: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the board of trustees of the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN +$21,235 FC SG EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 40"
citation: "Louisiana HB 40 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dodie Horton"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-26"
last_action: "2024-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e757f20e-26b3-4615-9978-c57e236d62c4"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245559"
source_hash: "80fb85edac0072ecc48864a963d80420150d75bc4482f8c5b5fbe11ffe5c0c95"
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 40 (2024) — RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the board of trustees of the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN +$21,235 FC SG EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB40 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1341403)
2. **HB40 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382272)
3. **HB40 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359469)
4. **HB40 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362650)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2353, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362315)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2921, Price, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371169)
7. **HB40 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379360)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1454) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#756) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#279) — **100–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dodie Horton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-10** Effective date: 06/10/2024.
- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 537. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/28/2024.
- **2024-05-15** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-14** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-24** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-23** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-22** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** 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, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 1. 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 (8-1). `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.
- **2024-01-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e757f20e-26b3-4615-9978-c57e236d62c4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).