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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Provides relative to the crime of obstruction of justice penalties. (8/1/21)"
+description: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Provides relative to the crime of obstruction of justice penalties. (8/1/21)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 140"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 140 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jimmy Harris"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-31"
+last_action: "2021-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a25ed514-9e30-4db2-9395-7a30713fe87f"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240273"
+source_hash: "c8996fdf8e54970af1ad79ede2422dad29b4ab54c96bfe7e4457970c99212f83"
+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 SB 140 (2021) — CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Provides relative to the crime of obstruction of justice penalties. (8/1/21)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB140 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210150)
+2. **SB140 Act 212** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235329)
+3. **SB140 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217843)
+4. **SB140 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231796)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#193) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#993) — **88–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jimmy Harris — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-11** Effective date 8/1/2021.
+- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 212. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-07** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-06-07** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2021-06-06** Received from the House without amendments.
+- **2021-06-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2021.
+- **2021-05-27** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-05-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2021-05-25** Reported favorably (8-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-29** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2021-04-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-04-28** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-04-27** Reported favorably.
+- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a25ed514-9e30-4db2-9395-7a30713fe87f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+