---
type: "Bill"
title: "ETHICS/CODE: Provides relative to acceptance by a public servant of transportation, admission, and lodging given by a third party"
description: "ETHICS/CODE: Provides relative to acceptance by a public servant of transportation, admission, and lodging given by a third party"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 188"
citation: "Louisiana HB 188 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gregory A. Miller"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-27"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/34e9a22d-236b-431e-a284-a658d97a138e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233422"
source_hash: "984729bbd5d503d536af0466b472df862c8058725c84ec2e3dc7f3c7f35f7697"
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 188 (2018) — ETHICS/CODE: Provides relative to acceptance by a public servant of transportation, admission, and lodging given by a third party

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB188 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1068389)
2. **HB188 Act 200** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1099056)
3. **HB188 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077556)
4. **HB188 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094499)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#855) — **33–1** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#164) — **94–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Gregory A. Miller — primary (person)
- J.P. Morrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 200. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-08** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-05-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-05-03** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-05-02** Reported favorably.
- **2018-04-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-03-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/28/18.
- **2018-03-22** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-21** Reported favorably (7-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/34e9a22d-236b-431e-a284-a658d97a138e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).