---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Creates the crime of unlawful possession, transfer, or manufacture of animal fighting paraphernalia. (gov sig)"
description: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Creates the crime of unlawful possession, transfer, or manufacture of animal fighting paraphernalia. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 144"
citation: "Louisiana SB 144 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gregory Tarver"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-31"
last_action: "2021-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3c3ce254-3bd2-4c3e-a1d3-b50766fe0215"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240277"
source_hash: "b21b6d7ad232a68ebbbd7a0ff43baebe938e2fb666b768106813afb42c19eda3"
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 SB 144 (2021) — CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Creates the crime of unlawful possession, transfer, or manufacture of animal fighting paraphernalia. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB144 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210459)
2. **SB144 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232821)
3. **SB144 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217844)
4. **SB144 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229689)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#194) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#839) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gregory Tarver — primary (person)
- Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-04** Effective date 6/4/2021.
- **2021-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 100. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-01** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-27** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-05-27** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-05-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/2021.
- **2021-05-24** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-19** Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-29** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-04-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-04-27** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3c3ce254-3bd2-4c3e-a1d3-b50766fe0215`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).