---
type: "Bill"
title: "MUNICIPALITIES: Provides relative to qualifications of the chief of police for the town of Gueydan. (gov sig)"
description: "MUNICIPALITIES: Provides relative to qualifications of the chief of police for the town of Gueydan. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 83"
citation: "Louisiana SB 83 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jonathan Perry"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-25"
last_action: "2018-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b9eb48b5-ae50-4b85-b122-f061867c0cb8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233340"
source_hash: "c0b009e54fa47d36fd12f02d342d4a6b913aeb68447c83c2e15a81bd8895102a"
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 83 (2018) — MUNICIPALITIES: Provides relative to qualifications of the chief of police for the town of Gueydan. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB83 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1067130)
2. **SB83 Act 26** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097220)
3. **SB83 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075404)
4. **SB83 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1091304)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#110) — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#602) — **89–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jonathan Perry — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-10** Effective date 5/10/2018.
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 26. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-02** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-01** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-04-30** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2018-04-26** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/26/18.
- **2018-04-10** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-04-09** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2018-04-06** Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-03-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2018-03-21** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-03-20** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-03-19** Reported favorably.
- **2018-03-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-25** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b9eb48b5-ae50-4b85-b122-f061867c0cb8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).