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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CRIME: Repeals the crime of vagrancy (EN DECREASE LF EX See Note)"
+description: "CRIME: Repeals the crime of vagrancy (EN DECREASE LF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 137"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 137 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Pat Moore"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-02-21"
+last_action: "2020-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e6458ba8-768b-4ec9-a08b-a2f72c6b0752"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237603"
+source_hash: "8845d8320fef87909a8f6a2b5a3ea02b5d89a67cff497218e82c96059727a441"
+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 137 (2020) — CRIME: Repeals the crime of vagrancy (EN DECREASE LF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB137 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1157282)
+2. **HB137 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181905)
+3. **HB137 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169874)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1516, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169507)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1551, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169748)
+6. **HB137 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176720)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CO-AUTHORS (#409) — **18–0** (fail) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#146) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#408) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Pat Moore — primary (person)
+- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Barry Ivey — cosponsor (person)
+- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
+- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
+- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
+- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
+- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Les Farnum — cosponsor (person)
+- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
+- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
+- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
+- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
+- R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person)
+- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard Nelson — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
+- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
+- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott McKnight — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)
+- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
+- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 172. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2020-05-27** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2020-05-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2020-05-26** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
+- **2020-05-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-05-07** Reported with amendments (10-0).
+- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/24/2020.
+- **2020-02-21** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-21** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e6458ba8-768b-4ec9-a08b-a2f72c6b0752`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+