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+type: "Bill"
+title: "PAROLE: Provides relative to parole eligibility for certain offenders (EN DECREASE GF EX See Note)"
+description: "PAROLE: Provides relative to parole eligibility for certain offenders (EN DECREASE GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 444"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 444 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Reich Freiberg"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-31"
+last_action: "2023-06-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ecccab15-d732-4b1c-8355-f189ba4fae1a"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244400"
+source_hash: "c29b413077b8ebac981a53acc47381f42fdc9a6ff76710619413cecea3561e0c"
+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 444 (2023) — PAROLE: Provides relative to parole eligibility for certain offenders (EN DECREASE GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB444 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309077)
+2. **HB444 Act 276** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332438)
+3. **HB444 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316511)
+4. **HB444 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320482)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1848, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316020)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1902, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316383)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #2024, Freiberg, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317283)
+8. **HB444 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329731)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#763) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#259) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — primary (person)
+- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-09** Effective date: 06/09/2023.
+- **2023-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 276. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-23** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-11** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-10** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-05-09** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/09/2023.
+- **2023-04-27** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-26** Reported with amendments (11-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
+- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ecccab15-d732-4b1c-8355-f189ba4fae1a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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