---
type: "Bill"
title: "MUNICIPAL/ORDINANCES: Provides relative to administrative adjudication of certain ordinance violations in the city of Monroe"
description: "MUNICIPAL/ORDINANCES: Provides relative to administrative adjudication of certain ordinance violations in the city of Monroe"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 87"
citation: "Louisiana HB 87 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Echols"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-09"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95f2cade-d773-4940-a82b-ea33e9bab80b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239883"
source_hash: "5dfb1bb764cb150210fc4bcb32fadb9472c12486c0b3866a5eeb1886945a9736"
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 87 (2021) — MUNICIPAL/ORDINANCES: Provides relative to administrative adjudication of certain ordinance violations in the city of Monroe

## Version chain

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

1. **HB87 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1202914)
2. **HB87 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235444)
3. **HB87 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218904)
4. **HB87 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229432)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#586) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#252) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Michael Echols — 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. 256. `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 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-19** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-18** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-17** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2021.
- **2021-05-03** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-29** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `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 Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `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/95f2cade-d773-4940-a82b-ea33e9bab80b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).