---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to subpoena duces tecum when investigating sex offenses involving human trafficking"
description: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to subpoena duces tecum when investigating sex offenses involving human trafficking"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 227"
citation: "Louisiana HB 227 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William \"Bill\" Wheat , Jr."]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-25"
last_action: "2021-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0de3c4df-cb8a-4e83-99bf-e683c411742a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240069"
source_hash: "2468a039f3d85959904846cbc3cb2d1533373686281b01068a250b1f591fb0bf"
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 227 (2021) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to subpoena duces tecum when investigating sex offenses involving human trafficking

## Version chain

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

1. **HB227 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1206999)
2. **HB227 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230373)
3. **HB227 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216471)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1533, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216459)
5. **HB227 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223928)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#324) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#97) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — primary (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-01** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 18. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-18** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-17** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-05-13** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-11** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-05** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-04** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-27** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2021.
- **2021-04-26** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-22** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
- **2021-03-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0de3c4df-cb8a-4e83-99bf-e683c411742a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).