---
type: "Bill"
title: "MUNICIPALITIES: Provides relative to the chief of police in the village of Dodson"
description: "MUNICIPALITIES: Provides relative to the chief of police in the village of Dodson"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 710"
citation: "Louisiana HB 710 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack McFarland"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-05-17"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8aa6001b-9917-4894-82b2-afbd0d2376cc"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241062"
source_hash: "4e716bd0007076ffa107daf34047cea53dcbe60342d59807cc7eceedf130f137"
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 710 (2021) — MUNICIPALITIES: Provides relative to the chief of police in the village of Dodson

## Version chain

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

1. **HB710 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224780)
2. **HB710 Act 358** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235686)
3. **HB710 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225167)
4. **HB710 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232949)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#596) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#833) — **36–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jack McFarland — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-14** Effective date: 06/14/2021.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 358. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-09** 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** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-06** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-06-03** 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 Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-20** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-20** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-05-20** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2021-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2021.
- **2021-05-18** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-17** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 229 reported by the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs (12-0).

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8aa6001b-9917-4894-82b2-afbd0d2376cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).