---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTIONS/COMMISSIONERS: Prohibits a registered sex offender or child predator from serving as a commissioner or watcher"
description: "ELECTIONS/COMMISSIONERS: Prohibits a registered sex offender or child predator from serving as a commissioner or watcher"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 135"
citation: "Louisiana HB 135 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Johnson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-20"
last_action: "2023-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/493ed50b-3481-4c28-9bb4-f49e3a76fa1b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243981"
source_hash: "13db94883525f69c3f1231f4829c3a332b7b6a72d27b1eea1a8169c9c08bc6e0"
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 135 (2023) — ELECTIONS/COMMISSIONERS: Prohibits a registered sex offender or child predator from serving as a commissioner or watcher

## Version chain

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

1. **HB135 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1303959)
2. **HB135 Act 221** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332282)
3. **HB135 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315346)
4. **HB135 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329463)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#713) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#194) — **103–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mike Johnson — primary (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-08** Effective date: 06/08/2023.
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 221. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-11** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-10** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-02** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/02/2023.
- **2023-04-26** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-25** Reported favorably (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/24/2023.
- **2023-03-20** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-20** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/493ed50b-3481-4c28-9bb4-f49e3a76fa1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).