---
type: "Bill"
title: "ASSESSORS: Requires the Evangeline Parish Tax Assessor to pay the cost of certain insurance premiums for eligible retirees from the assessor's office (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)"
description: "ASSESSORS: Requires the Evangeline Parish Tax Assessor to pay the cost of certain insurance premiums for eligible retirees from the assessor's office (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 8"
citation: "Louisiana HB 8 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rhonda Butler"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-09"
last_action: "2021-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f2eb0fe4-4c35-4c72-bad7-b468646ae14f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239770"
source_hash: "40188d0e8b66811e99a99fc64e410160ff059847ce464ea59452b072d2de3f86"
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 8 (2021) — ASSESSORS: Requires the Evangeline Parish Tax Assessor to pay the cost of certain insurance premiums for eligible retirees from the assessor's office (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB8 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1199257)
2. **HB8 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230348)
3. **HB8 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217116)
4. **HB8 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226144)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#128) — **93–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#387) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rhonda Butler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-01** Effective date: 06/01/2021.
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 2. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-26** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-05-19** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-18** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-18** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-12** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-11** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-10** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-03** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2021.
- **2021-04-27** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-26** Reported favorably (18-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-12** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/12/2021.
- **2021-02-09** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-09** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f2eb0fe4-4c35-4c72-bad7-b468646ae14f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).