---
type: "Bill"
title: "POLICE/LOCAL: Provides relative to the position of police chief in the city of Houma"
description: "POLICE/LOCAL: Provides relative to the position of police chief in the city of Houma"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 150"
citation: "Louisiana HB 150 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerome Zeringue"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-25"
last_action: "2019-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8294f1b1-5835-41ae-9f91-d567a62358ee"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235828"
source_hash: "f1d6e902e312cb9ac327d09099c6870924f3bcf3b5dffdb9695cece446f1a743"
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 150 (2019) — POLICE/LOCAL: Provides relative to the position of police chief in the city of Houma

## Version chain

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

1. **HB150 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1118030)
2. **HB150 Act 145** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143678)
3. **HB150 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132501)
4. **HB150 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141402)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#457) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#825) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jerome Zeringue — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 145. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-06-02** Rules suspended.
- **2019-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-30** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/19.
- **2019-05-09** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-08** Reported favorably (15-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8294f1b1-5835-41ae-9f91-d567a62358ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).