republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2018/hb-708.md

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Bill	CRIME: Provides for an exception to the crime of political payroll padding by a sheriff	CRIME: Provides for an exception to the crime of political payroll padding by a sheriff	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2018	HB 708	Louisiana HB 708 (2018)	bill		enacted	Raymond Crews	7	20	2	2018-03-19	2018-05-15	openstates	ocd-bill/df02bf60-12f7-43d8-bbc6-5c012fd784c4	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=234411	226a78ad3efd0b768d87ed025563260097aabc1ad046a58b4a0da8af9a24a0df	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 708 (2018) — CRIME: Provides for an exception to the crime of political payroll padding by a sheriff

Version chain

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

1. HB708 Original (filed) — source
2. HB708 Act 212 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB708 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB708 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Floor Amendment, #2476, Crews, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. House Floor Amendment, #2817, Carter, G., Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. HB708 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#625) — 34–0 (pass) · legislature
• FINAL PASSAGE (#415) — 90–10 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Raymond Crews — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-15 Effective date: 08/01/2018.
• 2018-05-15 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 212. executive-signature
• 2018-05-03 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2018-05-03 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2018-05-02 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2018-05-01 Received from the Senate without amendments.
• 2018-04-30 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
• 2018-04-26 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2018-04-25 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2018-04-24 Reported favorably.
• 2018-04-17 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. referral-committee
• 2018-04-16 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2018-04-12 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 10. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2018-04-12 Called from the calendar.
• 2018-04-12 Read by title, amended, returned to the calendar.
• 2018-04-06 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/12/18.
• 2018-04-06 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2018-04-05 Reported favorably (16-0).
• 2018-03-20 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2018-03-19 Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/df02bf60-12f7-43d8-bbc6-5c012fd784c4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).