---
type: "Bill"
title: "POLICE/LOCAL: Provides with respect to promotions within certain local police departments"
description: "POLICE/LOCAL: Provides with respect to promotions within certain local police departments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 577"
citation: "Louisiana HB 577 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jonathan Goudeau"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-02-28"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96975fd4-aa02-4b83-a81d-dcb8a7eea7b4"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238305"
source_hash: "5e4d764ac64951a298cca5012810cccb32bf0872db1b36a01058e0c577e2b0cf"
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 577 (2020) — POLICE/LOCAL: Provides with respect to promotions within certain local police departments

## Version chain

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

1. **HB577 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1163640)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #2876, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178158)
3. **HB577 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181929)
4. **HB577 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170469)
5. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2238, White, B, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177148)
6. **HB577 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1179214)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#567) — **29–6** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 2238 BY WHITE, HB 577 BY GOUDEAU (#566) — **20–15** (pass) · upper
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#707) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#125) — **85–10** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#733) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- MOTION TO ADOPT (#765) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jonathan Goudeau — primary (person)
- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 196. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-06-01** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2020-06-01** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2020-06-01** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2020-06-01** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2020-06-01** Conference Committee report received.
- **2020-06-01** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2020-06-01** Senate conference committee members appointed: Fields, Hensgens, and White.
- **2020-05-31** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2020-05-31** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2020-05-31** House conferees appointed: Goudeau, Huval, and James.
- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2020-05-29** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 6 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-27** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 84, nays 10. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported favorably (14-0).
- **2020-05-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-31** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
- **2020-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96975fd4-aa02-4b83-a81d-dcb8a7eea7b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).