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+type: "Bill"
+title: "ATTORNEY GENERAL: Creates the Fugitive Apprehension Unit within the office of the attorney general (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+description: "ATTORNEY GENERAL: Creates the Fugitive Apprehension Unit within the office of the attorney general (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 303"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 303 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mike Bayham"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-04-02"
+last_action: "2025-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e7cea3a-67c3-4c20-87c6-e087c7d3884a"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248268"
+source_hash: "fd66fdab193870a2f73737d1775bd08aadbaa67bf1270310bcb984e456a3e70d"
+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 303 (2025) — ATTORNEY GENERAL: Creates the Fugitive Apprehension Unit within the office of the attorney general (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB303 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402213)
+2. **HB303 Act 264** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425576)
+3. **HB303 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415359)
+4. **HB303 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422852)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#501) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#701) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mike Bayham — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
+- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 264. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-08** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-03** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-27** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary C.
+- **2025-05-27** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
+- **2025-05-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-20** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2025-05-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-05-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.
+- **2025-05-19** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-15** Reported favorably (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e7cea3a-67c3-4c20-87c6-e087c7d3884a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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