---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides for civilian investigators to oversee taped statements of protected persons"
description: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides for civilian investigators to oversee taped statements of protected persons"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 189"
citation: "Louisiana HB 189 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matthew Willard"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-26"
last_action: "2024-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d299434d-a32d-495b-adb4-250d2f1316c4"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245763"
source_hash: "ba234240a1d57be3e77603cd1c25927ffd8a2d9a43144a5cc0d1a78baf9a82b7"
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 189 (2024) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides for civilian investigators to oversee taped statements of protected persons

## Version chain

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

1. **HB189 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346615)
2. **HB189 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382284)
3. **HB189 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365968)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2651, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363769)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3088, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365929)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3102, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372077)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3104, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372086)
8. **HB189 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379371)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#641) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#947) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1474) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Matthew Willard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-10** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 548. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/28/2024.
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-08** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-07** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-22** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/22/2024.
- **2024-04-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-16** Reported with amendments (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d299434d-a32d-495b-adb4-250d2f1316c4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).