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type: "Bill"
title: "POLICE/MUNICIPAL: Provides relative to the powers granted to the chief of police for the city of Opelousas"
description: "POLICE/MUNICIPAL: Provides relative to the powers granted to the chief of police for the city of Opelousas"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 531"
citation: "Louisiana HB 531 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dustin Miller"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41b2f0be-53d1-4bac-8c3d-2dfaef63ed0b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236381"
source_hash: "9759b31ef36bd9f1a28e0502fc9d6ca6c7789ddef31b7be5eb45bfcae1514583"
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 531 (2019) — POLICE/MUNICIPAL: Provides relative to the powers granted to the chief of police for the city of Opelousas
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB531 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122193)
2. **HB531 Act 321** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144251)
3. **HB531 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132490)
4. **HB531 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141425)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#833) — **380** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#450) — **960** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Dustin Miller — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 321. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-06-02** Rules suspended.
- **2019-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-30** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-21** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/19.
- **2019-05-09** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-08** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2019-04-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-17** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/41b2f0be-53d1-4bac-8c3d-2dfaef63ed0b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).