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+type: "Bill"
+title: "COURTS/MAYORS: Expands the jurisdiction of mayor's courts to include the collection of municipal utility debts"
+description: "COURTS/MAYORS: Expands the jurisdiction of mayor's courts to include the collection of municipal utility debts"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 221"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 221 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["John Stefanski"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-03-27"
+last_action: "2019-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf601ef8-0d1c-46c7-b96b-07233d8efb84"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235949"
+source_hash: "0742f73c73f07f9b813e62dd2da53bc5c955d49c6da1770de8ff6210f3399191"
+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 221 (2019) — COURTS/MAYORS: Expands the jurisdiction of mayor's courts to include the collection of municipal utility debts
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB221 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1119215)
+2. **HB221 Act 210** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144072)
+3. **HB221 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130440)
+4. **HB221 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134808)
+5. **House Floor Amendment, #2767, Jordan, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134761)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2616, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138197)
+7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2792, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139174)
+8. **HB221 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142143)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#793) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#361) — **74–11** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#885) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- John Stefanski — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 06/11/2019.
+- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 210. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 102, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2019-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/19.
+- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2019-06-02** 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`
+- **2019-05-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-05-29** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-05-28** Reported with amendments.
+- **2019-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2019-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 74, nays 11. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-15** Called from the calendar.
+- **2019-05-15** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2019-05-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/19.
+- **2019-05-06** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-05-02** Reported favorably (10-0).
+- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-27** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cf601ef8-0d1c-46c7-b96b-07233d8efb84`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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