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+type: "Bill"
+title: "ANIMALS: Provides relative to sterilization of animals sold or released for adoption from shelters"
+description: "ANIMALS: Provides relative to sterilization of animals sold or released for adoption from shelters"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 177"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 177 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["William \"Bill\" Wheat , Jr."]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-23"
+last_action: "2021-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5c65f94-ec56-442e-8e0e-f06d35283149"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240003"
+source_hash: "1920c6c93cd23371b35261cb7e2b490a23cbad1e5fd4d116ced3ecaa3a068f78"
+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 177 (2021) — ANIMALS: Provides relative to sterilization of animals sold or released for adoption from shelters
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB177 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1205875)
+2. **HB177 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235109)
+3. **HB177 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219047)
+4. **HB177 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221637)
+5. **House Floor Amendment, #2245, Wheat, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220713)
+6. **HB177 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229052)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#262) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#496) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — primary (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
+- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
+- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 178. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2021-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-05-26** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2021-05-26** 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`
+- **2021-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-18** Reported favorably.
+- **2021-05-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2021-05-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-05-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2021.
+- **2021-05-03** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-04-29** Reported favorably (14-0).
+- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
+- **2021-03-23** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-23** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5c65f94-ec56-442e-8e0e-f06d35283149`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+