---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to the deferred retirement option plan of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN SEE ACTUARAL NOTE APV)"
description: "RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to the deferred retirement option plan of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN SEE ACTUARAL NOTE APV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 17"
citation: "Louisiana HB 17 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Phillip Tarver"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-25"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f4c7401-129e-49cc-91a2-335392f16954"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247900"
source_hash: "4115e939137f9aa37bf5ab1e62d722b9b1b85347a8d04c48a6c5cd198d39d217"
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 17 (2025) — RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to the deferred retirement option plan of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN SEE ACTUARAL NOTE APV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB17 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1394628)
2. **HB17 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422237)
3. **HB17 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408374)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1436, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406891)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1651, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408307)
6. **HB17 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419225)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#421) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#120) — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Phillip Tarver — primary (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04** Effective date: 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 45. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-05-30** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/29/2025.
- **2025-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-13** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-12** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-30** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-29** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2025.
- **2025-04-28** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** Reported with amendments (12-0). `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.
- **2025-02-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4f4c7401-129e-49cc-91a2-335392f16954`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).