---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the funding of supplemental benefits for members of the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN +$5,714,000 FC SG EX)"
description: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the funding of supplemental benefits for members of the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN +$5,714,000 FC SG EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 18"
citation: "Louisiana HB 18 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Timothy P. Kerner"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-25"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39173d0d-2863-4ec3-b101-df06cf3ee6de"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247901"
source_hash: "891dd1424435763f5d71c10b24f21a65e509d1b2b2b960a896811b8318fa9aec"
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 18 (2025) — RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the funding of supplemental benefits for members of the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN +$5,714,000 FC SG EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB18 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1394695)
2. **HB18 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424997)
3. **HB18 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408161)
4. **HB18 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411257)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1914, Kerner, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409515)
6. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2460, Price, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419354)
7. **HB18 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421229)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#525) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#161) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#810) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Timothy P. Kerner — primary (person)
- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date: 06/08/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 122. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/2025.
- **2025-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-01** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-28** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-27** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-13** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2025-05-12** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-06** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2025.
- **2025-04-28** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** Reported favorably (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/28/2025.
- **2025-02-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/39173d0d-2863-4ec3-b101-df06cf3ee6de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).