republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2021/hb-430.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "LAW ENFORCE/OFFICERS: Provides relative to the officer's bill of rights"
description: "LAW ENFORCE/OFFICERS: Provides relative to the officer's bill of rights"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 430"
citation: "Louisiana HB 430 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward Ted James"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 25
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11318c25-162f-4941-942f-cb00324714e5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240362"
source_hash: "6f55bf2390979e21d67e22f6c2a758fe0ec81d10930d7283ae8721b4f8fcb630"
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 430 (2021) — LAW ENFORCE/OFFICERS: Provides relative to the officer's bill of rights

## Version chain

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

1. **HB430 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211042)
2. **HB430 Act 451** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1236013)
3. **HB430 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219210)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1909, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218874)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1943, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219173)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2278, Reese, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226148)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2801, Talbot, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229249)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2807, Fields, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229333)
9. **HB430 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231680)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#318) — **56–45** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#958) — **60–37** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 2801 BY TALBOT, HB 430 BY JAMES (#603) — **14–22** (fail) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#605) — **10–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#604) — **30–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Edward Ted James — primary (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Carter Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-23** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 451. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 60, nays 37, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-03** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-06-03** Rules suspended.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-06-01** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/02/2021.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 7 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. 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.
- **2021-05-11** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-10** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-10** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 56, nays 45. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/10/2021.
- **2021-05-03** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-29** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/11318c25-162f-4941-942f-cb00324714e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).