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+type: "Bill"
+title: "EVIDENCE: Provides for tracking rape kits from collection through conviction. (8/1/23) (EN +$737,541 GF EX See Note)"
+description: "EVIDENCE: Provides for tracking rape kits from collection through conviction. (8/1/23) (EN +$737,541 GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 169"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 169 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Beth Mizell"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2023-03-31"
+last_action: "2023-06-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e4d66d0f-f07f-4c60-b16e-db9d627c5311"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244527"
+source_hash: "f64b9b3f94c75763f28a40c113a0bbf79a20e94c4e0b0e9b7b85c8a5b24e65b5"
+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 169 (2023) — EVIDENCE: Provides for tracking rape kits from collection through conviction. (8/1/23) (EN +$737,541 GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB169 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309702)
+2. **SB169 Act 193** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332177)
+3. **SB169 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315542)
+4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #828, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315280)
+5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #861, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315473)
+6. **SB169 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328785)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#880) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- CO-AUTHORS (#223) — **16–0** (fail) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#222) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Beth Mizell — primary (person)
+- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
+- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
+- Caleb Kleinpeter — cosponsor (person)
+- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
+- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
+- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
+- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
+- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
+- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
+- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
+- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillip Tarver — cosponsor (person)
+- Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
+- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
+- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-08** Effective date 8/1/2023.
+- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 193. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-05** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-04** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2023-06-04** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2023-06-04** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-06-01** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-05-31** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/01/2023.
+- **2023-05-24** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2023-05-22** Reported favorably (17-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-15** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
+- **2023-05-11** Reported favorably (9-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-08** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2023-05-08** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-05-02** Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-01** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-26** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
+- **2023-04-25** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-31** 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/e4d66d0f-f07f-4c60-b16e-db9d627c5311`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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