---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the board of trustees of the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN INCREASE FC SG EX)"
description: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the board of trustees of the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN INCREASE FC SG EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 37"
citation: "Louisiana HB 37 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Emerson"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-02-24"
last_action: "2023-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7cbe841b-1be5-4b2c-b6b3-70415af29e8d"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243863"
source_hash: "16b96cce39457f727e36ab4a71e310af6277ece1375ed8fb06f5026621482016"
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 37 (2023) — RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the board of trustees of the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN INCREASE FC SG EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB37 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1300904)
2. **HB37 Act 134** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332102)
3. **HB37 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318738)
4. **HB37 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322211)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2227, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318088)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2307, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318690)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2910, Emerson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321956)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2030, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324357)
9. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2144, Price, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325361)
10. **HB37 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328234)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#384) — **77–21** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#785) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#499) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Julie Emerson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-07** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 134. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-05-31** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-05-31** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/2023.
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-26** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-24** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-23** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-22** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-17** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 77, nays 21. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-15** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-05-15** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/2023.
- **2023-05-04** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-03** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/24/2023.
- **2023-02-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7cbe841b-1be5-4b2c-b6b3-70415af29e8d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).