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+type: "Bill"
+title: "ETHICS/CODE: Provides relative to certain statements required to be filed by elected officials"
+description: "ETHICS/CODE: Provides relative to certain statements required to be filed by elected officials"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 7"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 7 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gregory A. Miller"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-22"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5bfda778-8f52-487a-ad47-c97b065403ce"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233063"
+source_hash: "106b01186a504de9e39a26895ef93d6cbacb17980836d69e1d2fcba1b3be9e56"
+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 7 (2018) — ETHICS/CODE: Provides relative to certain statements required to be filed by elected officials
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB7 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1060843)
+2. **HB7 Act 183** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1099038)
+3. **HB7 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075151)
+4. **HB7 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094419)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#851) — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#40) — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gregory A. Miller — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 01/01/2019.
+- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 183. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2018-05-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2018-05-08** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2018-05-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2018-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2018-05-03** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2018-05-02** Reported favorably.
+- **2018-03-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-19** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2018-03-19** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2018-03-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/19/18.
+- **2018-03-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2018-03-14** Reported favorably (6-0).
+- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/26/2018.
+- **2018-01-22** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-22** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5bfda778-8f52-487a-ad47-c97b065403ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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