---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Prohibits certain employees from rejoining the Firefighters' Retirement System and Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN DECREASE APV)"
description: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Prohibits certain employees from rejoining the Firefighters' Retirement System and Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN DECREASE APV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 14"
citation: "Louisiana HB 14 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Carpenter"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-20"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e5023c0-f6c8-4867-ab61-75fb302d1b41"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235630"
source_hash: "d53096b2bb0c5f80a298e74a6ee75378475e32f07d35b90fce42dce0594b2f90"
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 14 (2019) — RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Prohibits certain employees from rejoining the Firefighters' Retirement System and Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN DECREASE APV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB14 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1112903)
2. **HB14 Act 288** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144131)
3. **HB14 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127684)
4. **HB14 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131532)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1257, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125687)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1579, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127661)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1644, Carpenter, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128015)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1124, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128073)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1866, RET, Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133613)
10. **HB14 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140347)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#470) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#147) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#759) — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara Carpenter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 288. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 91, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2019-05-28** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/19.
- **2019-05-28** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-05-27** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-21** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-20** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-05-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-07** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-06** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/19.
- **2019-04-29** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-25** Reported with amendments (6-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/22/2019.
- **2019-02-20** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4e5023c0-f6c8-4867-ab61-75fb302d1b41`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).