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type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides for nonrecurring lump-sum supplemental payment to certain eligible retirees and beneficiaries (EN +5,970,000 FC SG EX)"
description: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides for nonrecurring lump-sum supplemental payment to certain eligible retirees and beneficiaries (EN +5,970,000 FC SG EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 43"
citation: "Louisiana HB 43 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gabe Firment"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-24"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7964bcb5-6425-483d-98ac-0e3918ef172e"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243869"
source_hash: "ba0c2193d916fa7ff60279e27298dc2f7b4138d5a60bc46dbdc5b58d50d4bb4e"
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 43 (2023) — RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides for nonrecurring lump-sum supplemental payment to certain eligible retirees and beneficiaries (EN +5,970,000 FC SG EX)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB43 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1300907)
2. **HB43 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332480)
3. **HB43 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318821)
4. **HB43 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322114)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2299, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318742)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #977, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1310500)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2635, Firment, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320560)
8. **HB43 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330394)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#374) — **1000** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#852) — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Gabe Firment — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Richard Nelson — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-06-12** Effective date: 06/12/2023.
- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 337. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-03** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-06-03** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2023-05-23** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2023-05-22** Reported favorably. `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 100, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **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 (12-0). `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/7964bcb5-6425-483d-98ac-0e3918ef172e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).