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+type: "Bill"
+title: "PROBATION: Provides relative to the suspension or deferral of sentence and probation in felony cases (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)"
+description: "PROBATION: Provides relative to the suspension or deferral of sentence and probation in felony cases (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 178"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 178 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Joseph Marino"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-02-24"
+last_action: "2020-06-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ea84ae4-805c-4f87-95bc-99814ecbaa7d"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237684"
+source_hash: "6334ca180de361853885e11042fba7dc27c3665bfdf7ebbe4dc3bc836aed2b18"
+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 178 (2020) — PROBATION: Provides relative to the suspension or deferral of sentence and probation in felony cases (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB178 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1158636)
+2. **HB178 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180285)
+3. **HB178 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169888)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1151, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165579)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1515, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169499)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1560, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169759)
+7. **HB178 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176742)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#151) — **89–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#410) — **33–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Joseph Marino — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-06-05** Effective date: 08/01/20.
+- **2020-06-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 70. `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 1 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 89, 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 (11-0).
+- **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/8ea84ae4-805c-4f87-95bc-99814ecbaa7d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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