---
type: "Bill"
title: "JURY DUTY: Provides relative to qualification of jurors"
description: "JURY DUTY: Provides relative to qualification of jurors"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 84"
citation: "Louisiana HB 84 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Denise Marcelle"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-09"
last_action: "2021-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/60ff8c56-42f0-402b-9515-fa324c165c04"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239879"
source_hash: "4c3672cf1ed252751a0b5678590f4dcc62dee19d66701fa1be6cd54e36504db2"
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 84 (2021) — JURY DUTY: Provides relative to qualification of jurors

## Version chain

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

1. **HB84 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1202864)
2. **HB84 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1234497)
3. **HB84 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216402)
4. **HB84 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229412)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#594) — **23–13** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#217) — **55–42** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- C. Denise Marcelle — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-10** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 121. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 23 yeas and 13 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** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-18** Reported favorably.
- **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, roll called on final passage, yeas 55, nays 42. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-04** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/04/2021.
- **2021-04-27** Notice given.
- **2021-04-27** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2021.
- **2021-04-26** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-22** Reported favorably (6-4).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-12** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/12/2021.
- **2021-03-09** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-09** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/60ff8c56-42f0-402b-9515-fa324c165c04`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).