---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the administration and participation in the Deferred Retirement Option Plan for the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE APV)"
description: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the administration and participation in the Deferred Retirement Option Plan for the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE APV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 19"
citation: "Louisiana HB 19 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Timothy P. Kerner"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 24
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-02-25"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9722930d-8ddd-41fb-8b95-83dca13f6db2"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247902"
source_hash: "748f99bd131ffcd0d4e9e292e5290669a08936281951524384c1894eddad86b6"
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 19 (2025) — RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the administration and participation in the Deferred Retirement Option Plan for the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE APV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB19 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1394694)
2. **HB19 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425946)
3. **HB19 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408204)
4. **HB19 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411264)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1833, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408981)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1543, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413398)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1567, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413545)
8. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1757, Price, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414790)
9. **HB19 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424375)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1111) — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#750) — **7–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#162) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#749) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Timothy P. Kerner — primary (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 344. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-12** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-11** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-10** Read by title, roll called, yeas 90, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
- **2025-06-09** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/10/2025.
- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** 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`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-05-28** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-13** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-12** Reported with amendments. `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 95, 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 (11-0). `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/9722930d-8ddd-41fb-8b95-83dca13f6db2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).