---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT BENEFITS: Establishes an exception to suspension of retirement benefits for court reporters who are reemployed by judicial districts or parishes where a critical shortage exists. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE FC SG EX)"
description: "RETIREMENT BENEFITS: Establishes an exception to suspension of retirement benefits for court reporters who are reemployed by judicial districts or parishes where a critical shortage exists. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE FC SG EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 6"
citation: "Louisiana SB 6 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Abraham"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-28"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/60c8452e-72a7-4cac-a7d0-0e0663c1f40c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247916"
source_hash: "41a3ad35c0b10319d24371576c19be94c93c8fb4d063eb17c0f2d3b67fca36a2"
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 6 (2025) — RETIREMENT BENEFITS: Establishes an exception to suspension of retirement benefits for court reporters who are reemployed by judicial districts or parishes where a critical shortage exists. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE FC SG EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB6 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1395169)
2. **SB6 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422204)
3. **SB6 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407018)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #694, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406967)
5. **SB6 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418348)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#62) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#644) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mark Abraham — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04** Effective date 6/4/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 22. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **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 96, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was 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 (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-29** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-28** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-04-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-22** 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 Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/60c8452e-72a7-4cac-a7d0-0e0663c1f40c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).