---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides for the release of a person when the person was not brought before a judge within 72 hours of arrest"
description: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides for the release of a person when the person was not brought before a judge within 72 hours of arrest"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 293"
citation: "Louisiana HB 293 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephanie Hilferty"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-28"
last_action: "2018-05-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/862fdd9b-6dfa-401e-94ac-e040edfd75f5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233608"
source_hash: "5d1429a2b6d591bab3bee995de568de148769c3018711255d38ac05b9d10e60e"
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 293 (2018) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides for the release of a person when the person was not brought before a judge within 72 hours of arrest

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB293 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1070196)
2. **HB293 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097933)
3. **HB293 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1083601)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2312, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1083070)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2374, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1083510)
6. **HB293 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1091986)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#616) — **36–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#396) — **95–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Stephanie Hilferty — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-05-11** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 129. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-01** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-04-30** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-04-25** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-24** Reported favorably.
- **2018-04-17** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-04-12** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/12/18.
- **2018-04-06** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-04-05** Reported with amendments (14-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/862fdd9b-6dfa-401e-94ac-e040edfd75f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).