republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/hb-44.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the board of trustees of the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
description: "RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the board of trustees of the Firefighters' Retirement System (EN NO IMPACT APV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 44"
citation: "Louisiana HB 44 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dodie Horton"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 26
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-02-24"
last_action: "2023-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/036b9f3c-a4a5-4606-ba4e-f945affeb585"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243870"
source_hash: "d39ee89b215a5543468e5c30505f80b9e89f7a4909117337f473a6d97771865c"
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 44 (2023) — RETIREMENT/FIREFIGHTERS: Provides relative to the board of trustees of 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. **HB44 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1300932)
2. **HB44 Act 135** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332103)
3. **HB44 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318906)
4. **HB44 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323522)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1063, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311156)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2301, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318795)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #948, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1310303)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #2911, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321961)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #3117, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323253)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2029, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324350)
11. **HB44 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328259)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#500) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#505) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#783) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#376) — **47–46** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dodie Horton — primary (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-07** Effective date: 06/07/2023.
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 135. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/2023.
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-26** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-24** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-23** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-22** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** 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`
- **2023-05-17** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-17** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-05-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/17/2023.
- **2023-05-16** Notice given.
- **2023-05-16** Read by title, reconsidered, returned to the calendar, under the rules.
- **2023-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 47, nays 46. Failed to pass, motion to reconsider pending.
- **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 (10-0). `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/036b9f3c-a4a5-4606-ba4e-f945affeb585`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).