republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-31.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREMENT/TEACHERS: Provides relative to the optional retirement plan and defined benefit plan for the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE APV)"
description: "RETIREMENT/TEACHERS: Provides relative to the optional retirement plan and defined benefit plan for the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE APV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 31"
citation: "Louisiana HB 31 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Reich Freiberg"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-25"
last_action: "2024-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7192f6da-31c4-4d06-a61f-a3dc446cc678"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245547"
source_hash: "3f4bb80f2a51bf60ba31d3e88d0fba7aa8503fc1185696bce13f997adcc72438"
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 31 (2024) — RETIREMENT/TEACHERS: Provides relative to the optional retirement plan and defined benefit plan for the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE APV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB31 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1341246)
2. **HB31 Act 109** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378128)
3. **HB31 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364974)
4. **HB31 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366790)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2669, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364609)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2685, RET, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364566)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2849, RET, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364910)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #3201, Freiberg, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366446)
9. **HB31 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374143)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#631) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#561) — **84–14** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara Reich Freiberg — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Brach Myers — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Rashid Young — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-21** Effective date: 06/30/2024.
- **2024-05-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 109. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-14** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-13** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-30** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-29** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-17** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 84, nays 14. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/17/2024.
- **2024-04-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-11** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/26/2024.
- **2024-01-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7192f6da-31c4-4d06-a61f-a3dc446cc678`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).