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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides for the release of a person when the person was not brought before a judge within 72 hours of arrest"
+description: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides for the release of a person when the person was not brought before a judge within 72 hours of arrest"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 293"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 293 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Stephanie Hilferty"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-28"
+last_action: "2018-05-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/862fdd9b-6dfa-401e-94ac-e040edfd75f5"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233608"
+source_hash: "5d1429a2b6d591bab3bee995de568de148769c3018711255d38ac05b9d10e60e"
+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 293 (2018) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides for the release of a person when the person was not brought before a judge within 72 hours of arrest
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB293 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1070196)
+2. **HB293 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097933)
+3. **HB293 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1083601)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #2312, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1083070)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2374, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1083510)
+6. **HB293 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1091986)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#616) — **36–0** (pass) · legislature
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#396) — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Stephanie Hilferty — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-11** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
+- **2018-05-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 129. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2018-05-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2018-05-01** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2018-04-30** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2018-04-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2018-04-25** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2018-04-24** Reported favorably.
+- **2018-04-17** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2018-04-12** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2018-04-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/12/18.
+- **2018-04-06** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2018-04-05** Reported with amendments (14-0).
+- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/862fdd9b-6dfa-401e-94ac-e040edfd75f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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