---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
description: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 28"
citation: "Louisiana HB 28 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Timothy P. Kerner"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-28"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/318749b2-79ce-48f2-b2b0-80661fb4949c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247912"
source_hash: "a43747e76a60b67eb2447343c716a8c3b1c54548b96024fcbb42d7a5e5b83aff"
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 28 (2025) — RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN NO IMPACT APV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB28 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1395150)
2. **HB28 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425491)
3. **HB28 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408348)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1240, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405672)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1646, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408330)
6. **HB28 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423141)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#164) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#751) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Timothy P. Kerner — primary (person)
- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 235. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-05-28** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **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`
- **2025-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-05** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, 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 05/05/2025.
- **2025-04-28** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **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.
- **2025-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/318749b2-79ce-48f2-b2b0-80661fb4949c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).