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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to a defendant's appearance at certain proceedings by audio-visual transmission"
+description: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to a defendant's appearance at certain proceedings by audio-visual transmission"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 775"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 775 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Joseph Marino"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-03-31"
+last_action: "2020-06-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9dd8d4f-fa31-43df-884d-ef15fca4a576"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238687"
+source_hash: "7227cdf721807b0fbe4cc55570392d4f5b73be3db50e368a0f6f0ad606b6b58c"
+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 775 (2020) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to a defendant's appearance at certain proceedings by audio-visual transmission
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB775 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1167873)
+2. **HB775 Act 160** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181469)
+3. **HB775 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169858)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1348, ACRJ, Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1168398)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1514, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169491)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1557, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169766)
+7. **HB775 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177333)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#89) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#463) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Joseph Marino — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
+- **2020-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 160. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2020-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 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 96, 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).
+- **2020-05-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-31** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c9dd8d4f-fa31-43df-884d-ef15fca4a576`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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