---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL RECORDS: Provides relative to expungement. (8/1/19)"
description: "CRIMINAL RECORDS: Provides relative to expungement. (8/1/19)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 98"
citation: "Louisiana SB 98 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Price"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d9fd3ebb-f3c7-4fd3-8d68-2b87f68fec24"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235990"
source_hash: "ee08a429b4506bcc7445c29082d4f762f694f8277c7ff6de9c2a17153a1e6649"
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 98 (2019) — CRIMINAL RECORDS: Provides relative to expungement. (8/1/19)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB98 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1119648)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #3586, Jackson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141253)
3. **SB98 Act 268** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144029)
4. **SB98 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136193)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2197, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136137)
6. **SB98 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142498)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#824) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#922) — **35–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#463) — **32–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ed Price — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date 8/1/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 268. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-05** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-05** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-04** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 1 nays.
- **2019-06-03** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-31** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/19.
- **2019-05-31** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-29** Reported favorably (11-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-28** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-23** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-05-23** Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 2 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-22** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-21** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d9fd3ebb-f3c7-4fd3-8d68-2b87f68fec24`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).