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+type: "Bill"
+title: "EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS: Adds statewide civilian emergency dispatchers to the definition of \"first responders\" for certain purposes"
+description: "EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS: Adds statewide civilian emergency dispatchers to the definition of \"first responders\" for certain purposes"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 195"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 195 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Larry Selders"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-24"
+last_action: "2021-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5d775a7-70c2-47fd-baf6-eaae73fb7a51"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240029"
+source_hash: "764cd4db80b6884e8411729f5cef126f9585bc00cd57eca9e234e88fe234457c"
+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 195 (2021) — EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS: Adds statewide civilian emergency dispatchers to the definition of "first responders" for certain purposes
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB195 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1206358)
+2. **HB195 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235118)
+3. **HB195 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224750)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #2936, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224708)
+5. **HB195 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231652)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#537) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#758) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Larry Selders — primary (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. 184. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2021-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2021-06-03** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-06-01** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-24** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-20** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2021-05-19** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2021.
+- **2021-05-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-05-13** Reported with amendments (9-0).
+- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
+- **2021-03-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-24** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d5d775a7-70c2-47fd-baf6-eaae73fb7a51`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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