---
type: "Bill"
title: "MUNICIPALITIES: Provides for qualifications of the city of Jennings deputy chief of police. (gov sig)"
description: "MUNICIPALITIES: Provides for qualifications of the city of Jennings deputy chief of police. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 12"
citation: "Louisiana SB 12 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dan W. Morrish"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2019-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb7aed0e-9b4c-477d-88b4-5f089dd8f7d5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235647"
source_hash: "20c1f41480580562844ef0bcaa00689e16e307894dc1a44447fb51bf6ded75f8"
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 12 (2019) — MUNICIPALITIES: Provides for qualifications of the city of Jennings deputy chief of police. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB12 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1113142)
2. **SB12 Act 24** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140113)
3. **SB12 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127629)
4. **SB12 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129899)
5. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1109, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127863)
6. **SB12 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137781)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#197) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#579) — **88–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dan W. Morrish — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-30** Effective date 5/30/2019.
- **2019-05-30** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 24. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-30** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-28** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-28** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-27** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2019-05-23** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/19.
- **2019-05-13** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-09** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-08** Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-06** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-02** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-05-01** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-04-30** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-04-29** Reported favorably.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** 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/eb7aed0e-9b4c-477d-88b4-5f089dd8f7d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).