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+type: "Bill"
+title: "DOMESTIC ABUSE: Provides relative to protective orders"
+description: "DOMESTIC ABUSE: Provides relative to protective orders"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 55"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 55 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Aimee Adatto Freeman"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 37
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-02"
+last_action: "2021-06-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c62529f-5062-4d1d-b457-472948dc30f8"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239841"
+source_hash: "ec032de3755f49d919df7b140d6e852caa290d5487ba3a4fe3bc722dafeb3daa"
+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 55 (2021) — DOMESTIC ABUSE: Provides relative to protective orders
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB55 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1201831)
+2. **HB55 Act 394** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235792)
+3. **HB55 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215012)
+4. **HB55 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222170)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1246, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214452)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1281, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214778)
+7. **House Committee Amendment, #1310, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214987)
+8. **House Floor Amendment, #2248, Freeman, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220718)
+9. **HB55 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232927)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#295) — **93–1** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#844) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Aimee Adatto Freeman — primary (person)
+- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
+- Karen Carter Peterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard Nelson — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-16** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
+- **2021-06-16** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 394. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-25** Reported favorably.
+- **2021-05-11** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-10** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2021-05-06** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-05-06** Called from the calendar.
+- **2021-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2021.
+- **2021-05-04** Notice given.
+- **2021-05-04** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2021-05-04** Called from the calendar.
+- **2021-04-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/04/2021.
+- **2021-04-29** Notice given.
+- **2021-04-29** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2021-04-29** Called from the calendar.
+- **2021-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2021.
+- **2021-04-27** Notice given.
+- **2021-04-26** Notice removed
+- **2021-04-26** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2021-04-26** Called from the calendar.
+- **2021-04-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/26/2021.
+- **2021-04-21** Notice given.
+- **2021-04-21** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2021-04-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/21/2021.
+- **2021-04-20** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-04-19** Reported with amendments (9-0-1).
+- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-05** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/5/2021.
+- **2021-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1c62529f-5062-4d1d-b457-472948dc30f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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