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type: "Bill"
title: "ETHICS/CODE: Provides an exception to allow certain public servants and related persons and legal entities to enter into certain transactions with the public servant's agency regarding specified property under certain circumstances"
description: "ETHICS/CODE: Provides an exception to allow certain public servants and related persons and legal entities to enter into certain transactions with the public servant's agency regarding specified property under certain circumstances"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 491"
citation: "Louisiana HB 491 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Foy Gadberry"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/961717a3-4b31-403c-a086-0a8cca9dde1e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240445"
source_hash: "91ea3168c1ef9cbcbce19cda0356625c62240918e438e4fb0163052a6f256df5"
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 491 (2021) — ETHICS/CODE: Provides an exception to allow certain public servants and related persons and legal entities to enter into certain transactions with the public servant's agency regarding specified property under certain circumstances
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB491 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211587)
2. **HB491 Act 340** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235669)
3. **HB491 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218299)
4. **HB491 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232971)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#836) — **351** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#234) — **890** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Foy Gadberry — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-06-15** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 340. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-06** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-24** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-20** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-19** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05** 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, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2021.
- **2021-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-28** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/961717a3-4b31-403c-a086-0a8cca9dde1e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).