---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the position of deputy chief of police in the city of Oakdale"
description: "CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the position of deputy chief of police in the city of Oakdale"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 135"
citation: "Louisiana HB 135 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Dewith Carrier"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-17"
last_action: "2021-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50085f50-af11-48f6-891a-f2b99398b539"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239940"
source_hash: "e2cd551f209262dfc9c251ee14efe5029e71d809120cab8504e3a6e9228474d4"
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 135 (2021) — CIVIL SERVICE/FIRE & POL: Provides relative to the position of deputy chief of police in the city of Oakdale

## Version chain

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

1. **HB135 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1204587)
2. **HB135 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235468)
3. **HB135 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218917)
4. **HB135 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221616)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1378, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219330)
6. **HB135 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232864)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#835) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#258) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- R. Dewith Carrier — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-15** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 274. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-06** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-06-03** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2021.
- **2021-05-03** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-29** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-19** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/19/2021.
- **2021-03-17** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/50085f50-af11-48f6-891a-f2b99398b539`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).