---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC DEFENDER: Requires the Louisiana Public Defender Board to annually enter into a contract with the University of Louisiana Monroe to provide certain statewide training. (7/1/22) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)"
description: "PUBLIC DEFENDER: Requires the Louisiana Public Defender Board to annually enter into a contract with the University of Louisiana Monroe to provide certain statewide training. (7/1/22) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 206"
citation: "Louisiana SB 206 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Katrina Jackson"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-03-03"
last_action: "2022-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f45d964-1b8b-4acf-a2ff-469f515cc40a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242147"
source_hash: "0209374bf254789311f95a73f8b35d9fd2c1eaa4cfcae05512536f4eff97d6de"
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 206 (2022) — PUBLIC DEFENDER: Requires the Louisiana Public Defender Board to annually enter into a contract with the University of Louisiana Monroe to provide certain statewide training. (7/1/22) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB206 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1255346)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3766, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1275816)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3809, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1276013)
4. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2835, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1276294)
5. **SB206 Act 237** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286561)
6. **SB206 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1268849)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1755, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1268774)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1764, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1268847)
9. **SB206 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283518)

## Votes

- CO-AUTHORS (#280) — **7–0** (fail) · upper
- CONCUR (#852) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#961) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#279) — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Katrina Jackson — primary (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-31** Effective date 7/1/2022.
- **2022-05-31** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 237. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/27/2022. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-26** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-26** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-25** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2022-05-25** Called from the Calendar.
- **2022-05-23** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2022-05-18** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2022-05-18** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2022.
- **2022-05-09** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-05** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-05-04** Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-19** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-18** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-04-14** Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-04-13** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-04-12** Reported with amendments.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f45d964-1b8b-4acf-a2ff-469f515cc40a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).