---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME: Provides relative to exceptions to the crime of political payroll padding by a sheriff (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)"
description: "CRIME: Provides relative to exceptions to the crime of political payroll padding by a sheriff (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 65"
citation: "Louisiana HB 65 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephen Dwight"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-13"
last_action: "2020-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dc2b159f-0609-4d00-a8c8-5df2e99e8de9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237488"
source_hash: "4712e303301363c93a82a88ac2a598197430b609cddeb01b2c832f561fd2cd1d"
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 65 (2020) — CRIME: Provides relative to exceptions to the crime of political payroll padding by a sheriff (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB65 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1154573)
2. **HB65 Act 8** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180150)
3. **HB65 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169568)
4. **HB65 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175274)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#58) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#292) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stephen Dwight — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 8. `executive-signature`
- **2020-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-25** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-21** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-19** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. 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 (11-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/14/2020.
- **2020-02-13** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dc2b159f-0609-4d00-a8c8-5df2e99e8de9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).