---
type: "Bill"
title: "SUPPLEMENTAL PAY: Provides relative to qualifications for state supplemental pay for firemen (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "SUPPLEMENTAL PAY: Provides relative to qualifications for state supplemental pay for firemen (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 245"
citation: "Louisiana HB 245 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerome Zeringue"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-01"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a66e38d-a2e9-45fa-a717-e44d584799a5"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248173"
source_hash: "06db4d24e8d088f60ad2f1861a45b83c8ebb9183db38b89a5cc8b96038dc0f8b"
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 245 (2025) — SUPPLEMENTAL PAY: Provides relative to qualifications for state supplemental pay for firemen (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB245 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400982)
2. **HB245 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425086)
3. **HB245 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409308)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1618, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408165)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1806, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409271)
6. **HB245 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420239)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#221) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#528) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jerome Zeringue — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date: 06/08/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 166. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-01** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-28** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-27** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-06** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2025.
- **2025-04-29** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-28** Reported with amendments (19-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2a66e38d-a2e9-45fa-a717-e44d584799a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).