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type: "Bill"
title: "POLICE/MUNICIPAL: Provides relative to the qualifications of an elected or appointed police chief"
description: "POLICE/MUNICIPAL: Provides relative to the qualifications of an elected or appointed police chief"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 362"
citation: "Louisiana HB 362 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Fontenot"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-30"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b5239433-3f32-4a39-8a3d-47127ef7502a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244268"
source_hash: "7bced94e9c8b738356a843d5300dbcc125858ad3b67f1bbb219d1f5dee099f99"
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 362 (2023) — POLICE/MUNICIPAL: Provides relative to the qualifications of an elected or appointed police chief
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB362 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308114)
2. **HB362 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332505)
3. **HB362 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318499)
4. **HB362 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322904)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2356, Marcelle, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320423)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #2415, Fontenot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319367)
7. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2775, Bouie, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329159)
8. **HB362 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330903)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#461) — **960** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#848) — **390** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1077) — **980** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bryan Fontenot — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-06-12** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 348. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-02** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-06-01** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-16** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-16** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-05-16** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/16/2023.
- **2023-05-04** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-03** Reported favorably (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-30** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b5239433-3f32-4a39-8a3d-47127ef7502a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).