---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides relative to letters of incarceration"
description: "CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides relative to letters of incarceration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 529"
citation: "Louisiana HB 529 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Royce Duplessis"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-02-28"
last_action: "2020-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/35639065-fc53-49c8-bf0c-41102f40ee78"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238256"
source_hash: "c2c6526e496470c82877a6190364e52f57f915aed04b909891ba05f290825dee"
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 529 (2020) — CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides relative to letters of incarceration

## Version chain

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

1. **HB529 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1163412)
2. **HB529 Act 108** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180966)
3. **HB529 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172369)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1807, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171429)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1959, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172196)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1965, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172358)
7. **HB529 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178832)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#393) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#704) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- PERMISSION TO CONSIDER AFTER 82ND DAY (#685) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- 2/3 vote (#703) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Royce Duplessis — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Charles A. Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (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. 108. `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.
- **2020-06-01** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-06-01** Notice Senate approved consideration after the 82nd calendar day.
- **2020-06-01** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-06-01** Read by title. The Senate approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 82nd calendar day by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2020-06-01** Notice House approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 82nd calendar day.
- **2020-05-31** By a vote of 95 yeas, 0 nays, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the House approved consideration after the 82nd calendar day.
- **2020-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. 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 B. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/20.
- **2020-05-18** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-15** Reported with amendments (9-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/35639065-fc53-49c8-bf0c-41102f40ee78`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).