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type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME: Repeals the crime of vagrancy (EN DECREASE LF EX See Note)"
description: "CRIME: Repeals the crime of vagrancy (EN DECREASE LF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 137"
citation: "Louisiana HB 137 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pat Moore"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-21"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e6458ba8-768b-4ec9-a08b-a2f72c6b0752"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237603"
source_hash: "8845d8320fef87909a8f6a2b5a3ea02b5d89a67cff497218e82c96059727a441"
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 137 (2020) — CRIME: Repeals the crime of vagrancy (EN DECREASE LF EX See Note)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB137 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1157282)
2. **HB137 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181905)
3. **HB137 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169874)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1516, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169507)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1551, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169748)
6. **HB137 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176720)
## Votes
- CO-AUTHORS (#409) — **180** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#146) — **940** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#408) — **330** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Pat Moore — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Barry Ivey — cosponsor (person)
- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Les Farnum — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person)
- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Richard Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Scott McKnight — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 172. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-27** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-26** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported with amendments (10-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/24/2020.
- **2020-02-21** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-21** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e6458ba8-768b-4ec9-a08b-a2f72c6b0752`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).