---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN/MISSING: Provides relative to the reporting duties of law enforcement with respect to information about missing children"
description: "CHILDREN/MISSING: Provides relative to the reporting duties of law enforcement with respect to information about missing children"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 29"
citation: "Louisiana HB 29 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony Bacala"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-24"
last_action: "2020-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c3dcd04d-70d3-4b2a-86ed-ba4176edb267"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237434"
source_hash: "547dc0aaf2d89c3a4799b664ab2e8f60f14e038b15ede701450260ea06ab9a98"
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 29 (2020) — CHILDREN/MISSING: Provides relative to the reporting duties of law enforcement with respect to information about missing children

## Version chain

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

1. **HB29 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1152130)
2. **HB29 Act 96** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180950)
3. **HB29 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169767)
4. **HB29 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175240)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#288) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#56) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tony Bacala — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/20.
- **2020-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 96. `executive-signature`
- **2020-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-25** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-21** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-19** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, 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 (10-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/24/2020.
- **2020-01-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c3dcd04d-70d3-4b2a-86ed-ba4176edb267`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).