---
type: "Bill"
title: "WORKFORCE COMMISSION: Provides relative to payment of employees after termination of employment. (8/1/25)"
description: "WORKFORCE COMMISSION: Provides relative to payment of employees after termination of employment. (8/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 133"
citation: "Louisiana SB 133 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas Pressly"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12bdf8dd-3911-4296-8c88-233d3a22fee8"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248486"
source_hash: "a43210a9cf87f902c4dbf6c794e3936d10d16527216c4fcae403a6bada3954f0"
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 SB 133 (2025) — WORKFORCE COMMISSION: Provides relative to payment of employees after termination of employment. (8/1/25)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB133 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403821)
2. **SB133 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424986)
3. **SB133 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407749)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #608, L&IR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406357)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #648, L&IR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407691)
6. **SB133 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418343)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#646) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#103) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Thomas Pressly — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Becomes Act No. 113 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2025-05-29** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-28** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-05-28** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-27** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/2025.
- **2025-05-20** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-19** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-15** Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-05** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-04-29** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-23** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/12bdf8dd-3911-4296-8c88-233d3a22fee8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).