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+type: "Bill"
+title: "JUVENILES: Provides relative to the district attorney's discretion to prosecute a juvenile as an adult for certain offenses. (8/1/22)"
+description: "JUVENILES: Provides relative to the district attorney's discretion to prosecute a juvenile as an adult for certain offenses. (8/1/22)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 71"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 71 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Patrick Connick"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-02-24"
+last_action: "2022-05-31"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd983ade-c160-43c6-9e4e-b476d27e57ba"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241732"
+source_hash: "08bf65e4c323c518ea9fa8bc46fe2f5c853b15cbab48201a0dd45437c5dd3e4f"
+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 SB 71 (2022) — JUVENILES: Provides relative to the district attorney's discretion to prosecute a juvenile as an adult for certain offenses. (8/1/22)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB71 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1250141)
+2. **SB71 Act 175** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286271)
+3. **SB71 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1266114)
+4. **SB71 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283528)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1163) — **91–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#174) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Patrick Connick — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-05-31** Effective date 8/1/2022.
+- **2022-05-31** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 175. `executive-signature`
+- **2022-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/27/2022. `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-05-26** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2022-05-26** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2022-05-25** Received from the House without amendments.
+- **2022-05-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2022-05-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/25/2022.
+- **2022-05-12** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2022-05-11** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2022-05-10** Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2022-04-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-04-07** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2022-04-07** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2022-04-06** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2022-04-05** Reported favorably.
+- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-24** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dd983ade-c160-43c6-9e4e-b476d27e57ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+