---
type: "Bill"
title: "POLICE/LOCAL: Provides for the qualifications for the office of police chief in the village of Pine Prairie"
description: "POLICE/LOCAL: Provides for the qualifications for the office of police chief in the village of Pine Prairie"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 50"
citation: "Louisiana HB 50 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rhonda Butler"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-01"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f195ae10-2a91-49bc-9e03-1ea28a96e0d1"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245570"
source_hash: "0423d95dc63ee5259947f634db87fc9fa9d21c46627a9694d5d3ad1d3ff2ff54"
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 50 (2024) — POLICE/LOCAL: Provides for the qualifications for the office of police chief in the village of Pine Prairie

## Version chain

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

1. **HB50 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1341869)
2. **HB50 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379488)
3. **HB50 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359457)
4. **HB50 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375650)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#851) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#280) — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rhonda Butler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-23** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 187. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-21** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-24** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-08** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/2024.
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-02** Reported favorably (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/2/2024.
- **2024-02-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f195ae10-2a91-49bc-9e03-1ea28a96e0d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).