---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL/IMMUNITY: Provides for immunity from civil liability under certain circumstances for peace officers and public entities that employ or appoint peace officers (Item #13) (EN DECREASE SG EX See Note)"
description: "CIVIL/IMMUNITY: Provides for immunity from civil liability under certain circumstances for peace officers and public entities that employ or appoint peace officers (Item #13) (EN DECREASE SG EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024s2"
identifier: "HB 2"
citation: "Louisiana HB 2 (2024s2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony Bacala"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-08"
last_action: "2024-03-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c138d5bd-b067-42db-9a67-77f3c4a38314"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245594"
source_hash: "fdd52bfe96ca55e8eb93ab4eba9eed286af270a12985b41f09ae564f38014edb"
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 2 (2024s2) — CIVIL/IMMUNITY: Provides for immunity from civil liability under certain circumstances for peace officers and public entities that employ or appoint peace officers (Item #13) (EN DECREASE SG EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB2 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1342726)
2. **HB2 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353229)
3. **HB2 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344297)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #67, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344230)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #72, CL&P, Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344284)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #239, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346540)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #259, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347014)
8. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #306, Reese, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347672)
9. **HB2 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349584)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#55) — **26–11** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#28) — **73–31** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#81) — **73–27** (pass) · lower
- CIVIL LAW (#5) — **74–26** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tony Bacala — primary (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-06** Effective date: 04/29/2024.
- **2024-03-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 16. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-02-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-02-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-02-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 72, nays 26, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-02-28** Scheduled for concurrence on 02/29/2024.
- **2024-02-28** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-02-28** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 11 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-02-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-02-26** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 73, nays 31. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-02-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 02/22/2024.
- **2024-02-21** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-02-20** Reported with amendments (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-19** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-09** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/9/2024.
- **2024-02-08** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-08** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c138d5bd-b067-42db-9a67-77f3c4a38314`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).