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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CRIME: Repeals crimes relative to defamation"
+description: "CRIME: Repeals crimes relative to defamation"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 23"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 23 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Charles Owen"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-02-22"
+last_action: "2021-06-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bfe0ce73-4bbf-49e0-aa8c-9b51266840f3"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239792"
+source_hash: "be5b52b6b466d6bfdcafee8f9d46b12d55dffbab6388cb15598e404b36fa509a"
+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 23 (2021) — CRIME: Repeals crimes relative to defamation
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB23 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1200408)
+2. **HB23 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231931)
+3. **HB23 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216305)
+4. **HB23 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228881)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#80) — **93–1** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#491) — **35–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Charles Owen — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
+- **2021-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 60. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/28/2021.
+- **2021-05-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-05-26** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2021-05-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-18** Reported favorably.
+- **2021-04-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-27** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2021-04-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2021.
+- **2021-04-26** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-04-22** Reported favorably (10-0).
+- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/26/2021.
+- **2021-02-22** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-22** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bfe0ce73-4bbf-49e0-aa8c-9b51266840f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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