---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME/HOMICIDE: Provides relative to certain homicide offenses"
description: "CRIME/HOMICIDE: Provides relative to certain homicide offenses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 434"
citation: "Louisiana HB 434 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephanie Hilferty"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-27"
last_action: "2020-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/48771307-b4dd-4530-8da4-620a3d00de7c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238146"
source_hash: "c8f33788abb13f0b081c3eec068eb309c003ffc42dd908d3a2d522abb0ec7ea3"
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 434 (2020) — CRIME/HOMICIDE: Provides relative to certain homicide offenses

## Version chain

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

1. **HB434 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1162676)
2. **HB434 Act 105** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180961)
3. **HB434 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172007)
4. **HB434 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175724)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2355, Hilferty, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174467)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2060, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176365)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2366, McMath, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177835)
8. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2262, Foil, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177313)
9. **HB434 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178564)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#601) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 434 BY HILFERTY (#410) — **75–17** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#694) — **90–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Stephanie Hilferty — 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. 105. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 90, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2020-05-29** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2020-05-29** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended.
- **2020-05-29** Senate floor amendments read and adopted; read by title and returned to its regular order on third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended.
- **2020-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-28** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-25** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 75, nays 17. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-22** Called from the calendar.
- **2020-05-22** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2020-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/20.
- **2020-05-18** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-15** Reported favorably (9-2).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/48771307-b4dd-4530-8da4-620a3d00de7c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).