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type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME: Provides for an exception to the crime of political payroll padding by a sheriff"
description: "CRIME: Provides for an exception to the crime of political payroll padding by a sheriff"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 708"
citation: "Louisiana HB 708 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Raymond Crews"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-19"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df02bf60-12f7-43d8-bbc6-5c012fd784c4"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=234411"
source_hash: "226a78ad3efd0b768d87ed025563260097aabc1ad046a58b4a0da8af9a24a0df"
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 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](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1076387)
2. **HB708 Act 212** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1099068)
3. **HB708 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1083340)
4. **HB708 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1086209)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2476, Crews, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1084100)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #2817, Carter, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1086123)
7. **HB708 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1091978)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#625) — **340** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#415) — **9010** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/df02bf60-12f7-43d8-bbc6-5c012fd784c4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).