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+type: "Bill"
+title: "JUVENILES: Provides relative to the discretion of the district attorney to prosecute a juvenile as an adult for certain offenses"
+description: "JUVENILES: Provides relative to the discretion of the district attorney to prosecute a juvenile as an adult for certain offenses"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 54"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 54 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Laurie Schlegel"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-02-28"
+last_action: "2023-06-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d0a6b3e8-2146-420a-9dbf-0b3adba05ab8"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243884"
+source_hash: "3849f48d4bfef466366587108d63a1929cbf91966b569b08a067998a9cc867ab"
+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 54 (2023) — JUVENILES: Provides relative to the discretion of the district attorney to prosecute a juvenile as an adult for certain offenses
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB54 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1301235)
+2. **HB54 Act 418** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1333096)
+3. **HB54 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315678)
+4. **HB54 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329643)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#757) — **27–9** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#181) — **78–15** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Laurie Schlegel — primary (person)
+- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-26** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
+- **2023-06-26** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 418. `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 27 yeas and 9 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`
+- **2023-05-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-02** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-05-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 78, nays 15. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/02/2023.
+- **2023-04-26** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-25** Reported favorably (12-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/3/2023.
+- **2023-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d0a6b3e8-2146-420a-9dbf-0b3adba05ab8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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