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+type: "Bill"
+title: "BAIL: Provides relative to bond forfeiture"
+description: "BAIL: Provides relative to bond forfeiture"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 445"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 445 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Fontenot"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-02-29"
+last_action: "2024-05-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f0b9fe6-db8f-4698-a2b9-b19a1ebb70a8"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246148"
+source_hash: "54881d93e1fcc5fd26ae482bd608d3443a71cd3445cb755e419405eaa83dc78f"
+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 445 (2024) — BAIL: Provides relative to bond forfeiture
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB445 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350819)
+2. **HB445 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379545)
+3. **HB445 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358826)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1879, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358526)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1935, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358812)
+6. **HB445 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375875)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#949) — **34–5** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#248) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bryan Fontenot — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-23** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
+- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 221. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-21** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 5 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-08** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-05-07** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-08** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-04-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-04-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/2024.
+- **2024-04-02** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-27** Reported with amendments (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-29** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f0b9fe6-db8f-4698-a2b9-b19a1ebb70a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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