---
type: "Bill"
title: "ETHICS/CODE: Exempts certain transactions regarding the donation, sale, or lease of the former defender's office utilized to render public defender services under certain conditions"
description: "ETHICS/CODE: Exempts certain transactions regarding the donation, sale, or lease of the former defender's office utilized to render public defender services under certain conditions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 642"
citation: "Louisiana HB 642 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gabe Firment"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-04"
last_action: "2022-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/67848995-3d9b-416f-a590-06fae5dd5f36"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242450"
source_hash: "dc639fc9b9328d6701085729eafec31cc657e2adc9971c57e4268360888cb44b"
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 642 (2022) — ETHICS/CODE: Exempts certain transactions regarding the donation, sale, or lease of the former defender's office utilized to render public defender services under certain conditions

## Version chain

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

1. **HB642 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1257268)
2. **HB642 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286131)
3. **HB642 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1270851)
4. **HB642 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280352)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#680) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#525) — **85–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gabe Firment — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-25** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 184. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-20** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-19** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-18** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-17** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-17** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-12** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-11** Reported favorably.
- **2022-05-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 85, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2022.
- **2022-04-20** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-19** Reported favorably (12-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-03-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/67848995-3d9b-416f-a590-06fae5dd5f36`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).