---
type: "Bill"
title: "JUDGES/DISTRICT: Provides relative to certain judgeships in the Twenty-First Judicial District (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)"
description: "JUDGES/DISTRICT: Provides relative to certain judgeships in the Twenty-First Judicial District (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 235"
citation: "Louisiana HB 235 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert Carter"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-26"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90859b5e-d72d-4249-a426-010d4f91fea8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240080"
source_hash: "37e74d9bad74fc53e002299e602e8c4a7798dc68ab7836b8034eb3ab2079e6ba"
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 235 (2021) — JUDGES/DISTRICT: Provides relative to certain judgeships in the Twenty-First Judicial District (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB235 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1207466)
2. **HB235 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235200)
3. **HB235 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219241)
4. **HB235 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222767)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1649, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217120)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1969, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219205)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1377, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219329)
8. **HB235 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231302)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#307) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#707) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Robert Carter — 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. 189. `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 34 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 A. `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 95, 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, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-29** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **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.
- **2021-03-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/90859b5e-d72d-4249-a426-010d4f91fea8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).