republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2019/hb-22.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to the calculation of benefits of certain employees of the Baton Rouge Police Department who are members of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)"
description: "RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to the calculation of benefits of certain employees of the Baton Rouge Police Department who are members of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 22"
citation: "Louisiana HB 22 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony Bacala"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 25
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2019-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3470549f-1359-45f2-a254-a468dea0171d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235638"
source_hash: "b169a4c23714832a5c4deb760cccdea9b1cf2203a0227501a4800518d3cc8e3e"
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 22 (2019) — RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to the calculation of benefits of certain employees of the Baton Rouge Police Department who are members of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN INCREASE APV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB22 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1113020)
2. **HB22 Act 92** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143267)
3. **HB22 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127712)
4. **HB22 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131507)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1353, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126323)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1581, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127681)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1642, Bacala, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127998)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #1705, Bacala, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128284)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2028, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134870)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2344, Peacock, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137107)
11. **HB22 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140341)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#151) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#474) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#760) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#152) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tony Bacala — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-04** Effective date: 06/04/2019.
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 92. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
- **2019-05-28** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/19.
- **2019-05-28** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-05-27** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-21** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-20** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-05-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-07** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-06** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-06** Reconsidered.
- **2019-05-06** Rules suspended.
- **2019-05-06** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/19.
- **2019-04-29** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-25** Reported with amendments (6-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/22/2019.
- **2019-02-21** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3470549f-1359-45f2-a254-a468dea0171d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).