---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the presence of the defendant in misdemeanor prosecutions"
description: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the presence of the defendant in misdemeanor prosecutions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 406"
citation: "Louisiana HB 406 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stuart J. Bishop"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ddafb32f-e7cd-4eb4-884c-8055190b32a1"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240336"
source_hash: "bbc951741cd69ce6e3a8865e57ce639661a3b7a8cc9202e5b6453e534d3ab832"
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 406 (2021) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the presence of the defendant in misdemeanor prosecutions

## Version chain

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

1. **HB406 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210824)
2. **HB406 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235316)
3. **HB406 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216605)
4. **HB406 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218732)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1397, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215482)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1548, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216556)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1677, Magee, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217197)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2116, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224972)
9. **HB406 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230969)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#529) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#114) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#914) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Stuart J. Bishop — primary (person)
- Tanner Magee — cosponsor (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. 235. `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.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-01** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/02/2021.
- **2021-05-26** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-26** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-19** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-18** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-05-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-29** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-28** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2021.
- **2021-04-26** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-22** Reported with amendments (10-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ddafb32f-e7cd-4eb4-884c-8055190b32a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).