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+type: "Bill"
+title: "JUVENILES: Provides parole eligibility for certain juvenile offenders (EN DECREASE GF EX See Note)"
+description: "JUVENILES: Provides parole eligibility for certain juvenile offenders (EN DECREASE GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 173"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 173 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Edward Ted James"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2020-02-24"
+last_action: "2020-06-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9e594fe-fcea-4779-99f6-9d8f6d06785b"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237679"
+source_hash: "14854240fb14c39b1f4cac0e4f4069316c3e56ed1f512c9fe374d2b05ce4c526"
+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 173 (2020) — JUVENILES: Provides parole eligibility for certain juvenile offenders (EN DECREASE GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB173 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1158657)
+2. **HB173 Act 99** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180954)
+3. **HB173 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169769)
+4. **HB173 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1179044)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#149) — **68–22** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#715) — **25–8** (pass) · upper
+- PASS TO THIRD READING (#738) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+- 2/3 vote (#714) — **28–4** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Edward Ted James — primary (person)
+- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
+- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/20.
+- **2020-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 99. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-06-01** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2020-06-01** Read by title, passed by a vote of 25 yeas and 8 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2020-06-01** Read by title. The Senate approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 82nd calendar day by a vote of 28 yeas and 4 nays.
+- **2020-06-01** Notice House approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 82nd calendar day.
+- **2020-05-31** By a vote of 95 yeas, 0 nays, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the House approved consideration after the 82nd calendar day.
+- **2020-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. 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 B. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 68, nays 22. 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-05-07** Reported favorably (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.
+- **2020-02-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-24** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c9e594fe-fcea-4779-99f6-9d8f6d06785b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+