---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the issuance of summons by an officer in lieu of arrest"
description: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the issuance of summons by an officer in lieu of arrest"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 560"
citation: "Louisiana HB 560 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Emerson"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d6ac116-e5bc-4777-b9d4-1105b03121ee"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240522"
source_hash: "6011e25557a266fe122d2a824a1344ba66b85cdd3af2b843c39ef0e9a9c1badc"
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 560 (2021) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the issuance of summons by an officer in lieu of arrest

## Version chain

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

1. **HB560 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211934)
2. **HB560 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235321)
3. **HB560 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217708)
4. **HB560 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220809)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1195, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218134)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2535, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227613)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2537, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227617)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2814, Foil, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229365)
9. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2769, Foil, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228851)
10. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2750, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228806)
11. **HB560 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232617)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#711) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1021) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#200) — **102–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Julie Emerson — 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. 240. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Read by title, roll called, yeas 101, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/07/2021.
- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-06-02** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. 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 with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-26** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-25** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-04** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/04/2021.
- **2021-04-28** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-27** Reported favorably (12-0).
- **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.
- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d6ac116-e5bc-4777-b9d4-1105b03121ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).