---
type: "Bill"
title: "SHERIFFS: Allows a sheriff or deputy sheriff to purchase a duty weapon upon retirement for fair market value"
description: "SHERIFFS: Allows a sheriff or deputy sheriff to purchase a duty weapon upon retirement for fair market value"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 194"
citation: "Louisiana HB 194 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Scott McKnight"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-24"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/026df6c7-ee49-4a58-bc40-0900b8003d1e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240028"
source_hash: "3af6a3d0d419a4c595fbb9c2435193a02adb9e931964cae4ecfdde91c401549b"
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 194 (2021) — SHERIFFS: Allows a sheriff or deputy sheriff to purchase a duty weapon upon retirement for fair market value

## Version chain

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

1. **HB194 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1206359)
2. **HB194 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235117)
3. **HB194 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218928)
4. **HB194 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222755)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1385, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219336)
6. **HB194 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231300)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#304) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#700) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Scott McKnight — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 183. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/3/2021.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-25** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-11** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-10** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/10/2021.
- **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 Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
- **2021-03-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/026df6c7-ee49-4a58-bc40-0900b8003d1e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).