republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/hb-47.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "APPROPRIATIONS: (Constitutional Amendment) Requires the legislature to appropriate no less than twenty-five percent of nonrecurring state revenues for application to certain state retirement system unfunded accrued liability (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
description: "APPROPRIATIONS: (Constitutional Amendment) Requires the legislature to appropriate no less than twenty-five percent of nonrecurring state revenues for application to certain state retirement system unfunded accrued liability (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 47"
citation: "Louisiana HB 47 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Richard Nelson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 33
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-02-28"
last_action: "2023-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/785e9fac-943b-4e98-abd2-254aacd7c7e3"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243877"
source_hash: "f2f9a8caa815d27b39b7734efbe94e9ef534d8dbec891fa800617fd8e9ff2d8f"
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 47 (2023) — APPROPRIATIONS: (Constitutional Amendment) Requires the legislature to appropriate no less than twenty-five percent of nonrecurring state revenues for application to certain state retirement system unfunded accrued liability (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB47 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1301154)
2. **HB47 Act 107** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331982)
3. **HB47 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314769)
4. **HB47 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328681)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2975, Nelson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322366)
6. **HB47 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330500)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#633) — **64–28** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#452) — **63–30** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#853) — **37–2** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#895) — **103–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Richard Nelson — primary (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-08** Effective date: See Act.
- **2023-06-08** Becomes Act No. 107. `became-law`
- **2023-06-08** Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.
- **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 37 yeas and 2 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`
- **2023-06-04** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-06-03** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-02** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2023-06-02** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-01** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-01** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-06-01** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-06-01** Reconsidered.
- **2023-06-01** Rules suspended.
- **2023-05-24** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 64, nays 28. The bill, not having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, failed to pass.
- **2023-05-24** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-05-24** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2023-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/24/2023.
- **2023-05-23** Notice given.
- **2023-05-17** Read by title, reconsidered, returned to the calendar, under the rules.
- **2023-05-16** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 63, nays 30. The bill, not having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, failed to pass. Motion to reconsider pending.
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/16/2023.
- **2023-05-09** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-08** Reported without amendments (9-0-1).
- **2023-04-25** Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
- **2023-04-24** Reported favorably (17-0. To be recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/3/2023.
- **2023-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/785e9fac-943b-4e98-abd2-254aacd7c7e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).