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type: "Bill"
title: "LAW ENFORCE/OFFICERS: Provides relative to peace officers"
description: "LAW ENFORCE/OFFICERS: Provides relative to peace officers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 129"
citation: "Louisiana HB 129 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony Bacala"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-16"
last_action: "2021-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f77a518-05d7-46f7-983e-2bc2082d1d83"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239933"
source_hash: "8d82db1db0107fe267c06e510d25635c2232e189601afca02951900fff57f4fb"
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 129 (2021) — LAW ENFORCE/OFFICERS: Provides relative to peace officers
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB129 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1204262)
2. **HB129 Act 418** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235919)
3. **HB129 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219093)
4. **HB129 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221578)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2143, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220037)
6. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1411, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219548)
7. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2370, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226611)
8. **HB129 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230402)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#255) — **980** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#884) — **970** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#493) — **350** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Tony Bacala — primary (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-06-21** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 418. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-01** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
- **2021-05-27** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/01/2021.
- **2021-05-26** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-26** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-20** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-18** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2021.
- **2021-05-03** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-29** Reported favorably (12-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-19** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/19/2021.
- **2021-03-17** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4f77a518-05d7-46f7-983e-2bc2082d1d83`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).