---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS: Provides relative to justice of the peace courts and constables in Avoyelles Parish"
description: "COURTS: Provides relative to justice of the peace courts and constables in Avoyelles Parish"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 964"
citation: "Louisiana HB 964 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daryl Deshotel"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-09"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dcb5258f-da34-4512-b0f9-a87a5981d229"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247249"
source_hash: "110f9598ad4a3f777148d167f4ca1fff30c2bc029c938767f682cde5d13eb524"
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 964 (2024) — COURTS: Provides relative to justice of the peace courts and constables in Avoyelles Parish

## Version chain

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

1. **HB964 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363479)
2. **HB964 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379590)
3. **HB964 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363510)
4. **HB964 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366123)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3113, Deshotel, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365932)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #3142, Butler, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366020)
7. **HB964 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374404)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#516) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#650) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Daryl Deshotel — 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. 244. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-14** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-13** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-30** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-16** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/16/2024.
- **2024-04-10** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-09** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 359 reported by the Committee on Judiciary (16-0).

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dcb5258f-da34-4512-b0f9-a87a5981d229`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).