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Louisiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 285: POLICE/MUNICIPAL: Provides for the abolition of the office of police chief and police department in the village of Edgefield

Vetoed Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Vetoed

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 285 is a bill introduced in the Louisiana House on April 2, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: POLICE/MUNICIPAL: Provides for the abolition of the office of police chief and police department in the village of Edgefield. Primary sponsor: Dennis Bamburg (Republican). Most recent recorded action (June 20, 2025): Vetoed by the Governor.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Dennis BamburgPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse5

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Vetoed by the Governor.
  2. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.
  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
  5. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
  6. Received from the Senate without amendments.
  7. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
  8. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
  9. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs.
  10. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
  11. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
  12. Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

Showing 12 most recent of 17 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source