---
type: "Bill"
title: "MUNICIPAL/ORDINANCES: Provides relative to administrative adjudication of certain ordinance violations in the city of DeRidder"
description: "MUNICIPAL/ORDINANCES: Provides relative to administrative adjudication of certain ordinance violations in the city of DeRidder"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 138"
citation: "Louisiana HB 138 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Owen"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-20"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9327173d-4a4e-4cfd-84ed-39738fd7664a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243984"
source_hash: "a4d3468b56d1c80e3e09fba75952ec4d28d032a109ea5aafbb28e984810d79c8"
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 138 (2023) — MUNICIPAL/ORDINANCES: Provides relative to administrative adjudication of certain ordinance violations in the city of DeRidder

## Version chain

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

1. **HB138 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1303964)
2. **HB138 Act 118** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331996)
3. **HB138 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316772)
4. **HB138 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326930)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#484) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#283) — **104–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Charles Owen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 118. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-18** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-11** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-10** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-09** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 104, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/09/2023.
- **2023-05-01** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-27** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural 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 Municipal, Parochial and Cultural 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/9327173d-4a4e-4cfd-84ed-39738fd7664a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).