---
type: "Bill"
title: "EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS: Adds statewide civilian emergency dispatchers to the definition of \"first responders\" for certain purposes"
description: "EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS: Adds statewide civilian emergency dispatchers to the definition of \"first responders\" for certain purposes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 195"
citation: "Louisiana HB 195 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Selders"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-24"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5d775a7-70c2-47fd-baf6-eaae73fb7a51"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240029"
source_hash: "764cd4db80b6884e8411729f5cef126f9585bc00cd57eca9e234e88fe234457c"
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 195 (2021) — EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS: Adds statewide civilian emergency dispatchers to the definition of "first responders" for certain purposes

## Version chain

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

1. **HB195 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1206358)
2. **HB195 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235118)
3. **HB195 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224750)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2936, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224708)
5. **HB195 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231652)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#537) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#758) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Larry Selders — 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. 184. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-03** 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`
- **2021-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-06-01** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-24** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-20** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-19** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2021.
- **2021-05-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-13** Reported with amendments (9-0).
- **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/d5d775a7-70c2-47fd-baf6-eaae73fb7a51`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).