---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS/MAYORS: Expands the jurisdiction of mayor's courts to include the collection of municipal utility debts"
description: "COURTS/MAYORS: Expands the jurisdiction of mayor's courts to include the collection of municipal utility debts"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 221"
citation: "Louisiana HB 221 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Stefanski"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf601ef8-0d1c-46c7-b96b-07233d8efb84"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235949"
source_hash: "0742f73c73f07f9b813e62dd2da53bc5c955d49c6da1770de8ff6210f3399191"
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 221 (2019) — COURTS/MAYORS: Expands the jurisdiction of mayor's courts to include the collection of municipal utility debts

## Version chain

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

1. **HB221 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1119215)
2. **HB221 Act 210** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144072)
3. **HB221 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130440)
4. **HB221 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134808)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2767, Jordan, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134761)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2616, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138197)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2792, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139174)
8. **HB221 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142143)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#793) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#361) — **74–11** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#885) — **102–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- John Stefanski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 06/11/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 210. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 102, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2019-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/19.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-29** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-28** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 74, nays 11. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-15** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-05-15** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-05-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/19.
- **2019-05-06** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-02** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cf601ef8-0d1c-46c7-b96b-07233d8efb84`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).