republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2022/hb-642.md

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Bill	ETHICS/CODE: Exempts certain transactions regarding the donation, sale, or lease of the former defender's office utilized to render public defender services under certain conditions	ETHICS/CODE: Exempts certain transactions regarding the donation, sale, or lease of the former defender's office utilized to render public defender services under certain conditions	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2022	HB 642	Louisiana HB 642 (2022)	bill		enacted	Gabe Firment	4	20	2	2022-03-04	2022-05-25	openstates	ocd-bill/67848995-3d9b-416f-a590-06fae5dd5f36	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242450	dc639fc9b9328d6701085729eafec31cc657e2adc9971c57e4268360888cb44b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 642 (2022) — ETHICS/CODE: Exempts certain transactions regarding the donation, sale, or lease of the former defender's office utilized to render public defender services under certain conditions

Version chain

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

1. HB642 Original (filed) — source
2. HB642 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB642 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB642 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#680) — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#525) — 85–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gabe Firment — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-05-25 Effective date: 08/01/2022.
• 2022-05-25 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 184. executive-signature
• 2022-05-20 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2022-05-19 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2022-05-18 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2022-05-17 Received from the Senate without amendments.
• 2022-05-17 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2022-05-15 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2022-05-12 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2022-05-11 Reported favorably.
• 2022-05-03 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2022-05-02 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2022-04-28 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 85, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2022-04-21 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2022.
• 2022-04-20 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2022-04-19 Reported favorably (12-0).
• 2022-03-14 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2022-03-04 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
• 2022-03-04 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2022-03-04 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/67848995-3d9b-416f-a590-06fae5dd5f36. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).