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+type: "Bill"
+title: "ETHICS/NEPOTISM: Provides an exception to allow an immediate family member of a village governing authority member to be appointed or employed by the village under certain circumstances"
+description: "ETHICS/NEPOTISM: Provides an exception to allow an immediate family member of a village governing authority member to be appointed or employed by the village under certain circumstances"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 192"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 192 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Patrick O. Jefferson"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-24"
+last_action: "2023-06-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ca2a00c-6c92-4313-ba14-c7ccd46bb2c1"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244050"
+source_hash: "37a02f2d3dde7d954c86d092903557a1cdb0ec32e697ce1f56ba15edf53a3009"
+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 192 (2023) — ETHICS/NEPOTISM: Provides an exception to allow an immediate family member of a village governing authority member to be appointed or employed by the village under certain circumstances
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB192 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1305130)
+2. **HB192 Act 227** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332288)
+3. **HB192 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323312)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #3085, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322944)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #3123, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323292)
+6. **HB192 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329433)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#595) — **93–4** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#682) — **35–3** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-08** Effective date: 06/08/2023.
+- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 227. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 3 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-06-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-31** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-24** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-23** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-05-23** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/2023.
+- **2023-05-18** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-17** Reported with amendments (11-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/24/2023.
+- **2023-03-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-24** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5ca2a00c-6c92-4313-ba14-c7ccd46bb2c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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