---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/TEACHERS: Provides relative to the optional retirement plan in the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE APV)"
description: "RETIREMENT/TEACHERS: Provides relative to the optional retirement plan in the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE APV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 24"
citation: "Louisiana HB 24 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony Bacala"]
version_count: 14
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3a8157e-66e3-4796-abae-faae593454c7"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247908"
source_hash: "e738a9e8967468a9580e63df715659b1c824b20526f59c07c5362e188d463827"
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 24 (2025) — RETIREMENT/TEACHERS: Provides relative to the optional retirement plan in the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE APV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB24 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1395008)
2. **HB24 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422239)
3. **HB24 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408436)
4. **HB24 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413886)
5. **HB24 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411953)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1388, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406636)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1526, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407585)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #1653, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408361)
9. **House Committee Amendment, #1916, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409520)
10. **House Committee Amendment, #2106, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410696)
11. **House Committee Amendment, #2276, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411865)
12. **House Committee Amendment, #733, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1397766)
13. **House Floor Amendment, #2427, Bacala, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412281)
14. **HB24 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418539)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#320) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#399) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tony Bacala — primary (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04** Effective date: 07/01/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 47. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-27** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-20** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-19** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-14** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-13** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-12** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2025.
- **2025-05-07** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-06** Reported with amendments (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-28** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2025-04-24** Reported with amendments (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.
- **2025-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b3a8157e-66e3-4796-abae-faae593454c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).