---
type: "Bill"
title: "HOUSING/AUTHORITIES: Provides relative to the civil service status of employees of the Simmesport Housing Authority"
description: "HOUSING/AUTHORITIES: Provides relative to the civil service status of employees of the Simmesport Housing Authority"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 162"
citation: "Louisiana HB 162 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daryl Deshotel"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-22"
last_action: "2021-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9deae90d-80a5-4dac-9eda-22304f989d6a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239987"
source_hash: "6d3a064fd57a358dc924e78f41c73f1ca6180775a002f72f7fbffa142addda45"
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 162 (2021) — HOUSING/AUTHORITIES: Provides relative to the civil service status of employees of the Simmesport Housing Authority

## Version chain

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

1. **HB162 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1205656)
2. **HB162 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231953)
3. **HB162 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218927)
4. **HB162 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228924)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#261) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#471) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Daryl Deshotel — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 70. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-26** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-25** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-19** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-18** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-17** Reported favorably.
- **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. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, 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 (12-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
- **2021-03-23** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9deae90d-80a5-4dac-9eda-22304f989d6a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).