---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides relative to the form of payment for expungement of a record"
description: "CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides relative to the form of payment for expungement of a record"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 257"
citation: "Louisiana HB 257 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nicholas Muscarello"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-26"
last_action: "2020-06-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b0fb462a-92a2-4cc2-9fe5-01711b9d43d5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237809"
source_hash: "d4726768aee54790f82f0b48c53eb2d331248c92daa4e7b7abc61791b9153bee"
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 257 (2020) — CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides relative to the form of payment for expungement of a record

## Version chain

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

1. **HB257 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1159983)
2. **HB257 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180299)
3. **HB257 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169575)
4. **HB257 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176750)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#73) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#415) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nicholas Muscarello — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-05** Effective date: 08/01/20.
- **2020-06-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 79. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-27** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-26** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b0fb462a-92a2-4cc2-9fe5-01711b9d43d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).