---
type: "Bill"
title: "JUVENILES: Provides relative to the membership of the Juvenile Justice Reform Act Implementation Commission"
description: "JUVENILES: Provides relative to the membership of the Juvenile Justice Reform Act Implementation Commission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 726"
citation: "Louisiana HB 726 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph Bouie"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-26"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fffa86e6-0da6-4a3d-b3a1-4819182c76b0"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=234487"
source_hash: "91e659404a40a4163860f3ad12303a07873d3b3a6e6b0cfa5f29e338a26c3c6d"
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 726 (2018) — JUVENILES: Provides relative to the membership of the Juvenile Justice Reform Act Implementation Commission

## Version chain

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

1. **HB726 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1078894)
2. **HB726 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1098000)
3. **HB726 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1082890)
4. **HB726 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094613)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#844) — **32–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#373) — **92–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Joseph Bouie — primary (person)
- Wesley Bishop — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 179. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-08** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-05-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-05-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-05-02** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-05-01** Reported favorably.
- **2018-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-12** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-04-11** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/11/18.
- **2018-04-05** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-04-04** Reported favorably (17-0).
- **2018-03-27** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-26** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fffa86e6-0da6-4a3d-b3a1-4819182c76b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).