republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2021/hb-227.md

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Bill	CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to subpoena duces tecum when investigating sex offenses involving human trafficking	CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to subpoena duces tecum when investigating sex offenses involving human trafficking	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2021	HB 227	Louisiana HB 227 (2021)	bill		enacted	William "Bill" Wheat , Jr.	5	20	2	2021-03-25	2021-06-01	openstates	ocd-bill/0de3c4df-cb8a-4e83-99bf-e683c411742a	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240069	2468a039f3d85959904846cbc3cb2d1533373686281b01068a250b1f591fb0bf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 227 (2021) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to subpoena duces tecum when investigating sex offenses involving human trafficking

Version chain

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

1. HB227 Original (filed) — source
2. HB227 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB227 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #1533, ACRJ, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
5. HB227 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#324) — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#97) — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — primary (person)
• Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
• Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
• Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-01 Effective date: 08/01/2021.
• 2021-06-01 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 18. executive-signature
• 2021-05-18 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2021-05-17 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2021-05-13 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2021-05-11 Received from the Senate without amendments.
• 2021-05-11 Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2021-05-06 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2021-05-05 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2021-05-04 Reported favorably.
• 2021-04-28 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. referral-committee
• 2021-04-27 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2021-04-27 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2021-04-26 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2021.
• 2021-04-26 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2021-04-22 Reported with amendments (11-0).
• 2021-04-12 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2021-03-26 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
• 2021-03-25 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2021-03-25 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0de3c4df-cb8a-4e83-99bf-e683c411742a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).