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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides for exemption of expungement fees in certain circumstances (EN DECREASE SD RV See Note)"
+description: "CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides for exemption of expungement fees in certain circumstances (EN DECREASE SD RV See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 162"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 162 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Joseph Marino"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-02-24"
+last_action: "2022-05-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ea669557-063e-475a-85a3-815ae8139a36"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241721"
+source_hash: "6d1682d88a362df8add1730c8feaffe4ba30f427c860a465942a4a8e1422bd5b"
+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 162 (2022) — CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides for exemption of expungement fees in certain circumstances (EN DECREASE SD RV See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB162 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1250106)
+2. **HB162 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280936)
+3. **HB162 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1260048)
+4. **HB162 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278525)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#526) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#48) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Joseph Marino — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-05-17** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
+- **2022-05-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 36. `executive-signature`
+- **2022-05-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-05-15** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/12/2022.
+- **2022-05-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2022-05-11** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2022-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2022-05-09** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2022-05-04** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2022-05-03** Reported favorably.
+- **2022-03-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-23** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2022-03-23** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2022-03-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/23/2022.
+- **2022-03-21** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2022-03-17** Reported favorably (12-0).
+- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-25** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/25/2022.
+- **2022-02-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-24** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ea669557-063e-475a-85a3-815ae8139a36`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+