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+type: "Bill"
+title: "PARISHES: Authorizes the governing authority of Acadia Parish to employ its own attorneys to represent it generally. (gov sig)"
+description: "PARISHES: Authorizes the governing authority of Acadia Parish to employ its own attorneys to represent it generally. (gov sig)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 128"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 128 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jonathan Perry"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-27"
+last_action: "2018-05-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f541aaae-3ecc-4484-8a80-6a5cc2229f1e"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233447"
+source_hash: "4bdcb48e19074035c171c5585e30c20bbf69c7aa53a18bde0a590dd1168bc862"
+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 SB 128 (2018) — PARISHES: Authorizes the governing authority of Acadia Parish to employ its own attorneys to represent it generally. (gov sig)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB128 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1068684)
+2. **SB128 Act 30** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097224)
+3. **SB128 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1076823)
+4. **SB128 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1091317)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#603) — **88–0** (pass) · legislature
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#134) — **37–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jonathan Perry — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-10** Effective date 5/10/2018.
+- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 30. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-02** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2018-05-01** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2018-04-30** Received from the House without amendments.
+- **2018-04-26** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2018-04-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/26/18.
+- **2018-04-10** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2018-04-09** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2018-04-06** Reported favorably (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2018-03-26** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-22** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2018-03-22** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2018-03-21** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2018-03-20** Reported favorably.
+- **2018-03-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f541aaae-3ecc-4484-8a80-6a5cc2229f1e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+