---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to reemployment of retirees in the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)"
description: "RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to reemployment of retirees in the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 963"
citation: "Louisiana HB 963 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jason Dewitt"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-09"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bcd86774-af49-42af-b17d-b374f216d6d4"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247248"
source_hash: "d6c91fa6035b31edab48b566b7730789a9fd697ab2dc32dd683bcd6ad06c3375"
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 963 (2024) — RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to reemployment of retirees in the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB963 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363474)
2. **HB963 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381942)
3. **HB963 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363505)
4. **HB963 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366081)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3085, Dewitt, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365830)
6. **HB963 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376813)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#515) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#998) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jason Dewitt — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 462. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-21** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-14** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-13** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-30** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2024-04-29** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-16** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/16/2024.
- **2024-04-10** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-09** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 14 reported by the Committee on Retirement (10-0).

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bcd86774-af49-42af-b17d-b374f216d6d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).