---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides for the suspension of certain time periods, limitations, and delays in declared states of disaster, emergency, or public health emergency"
description: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides for the suspension of certain time periods, limitations, and delays in declared states of disaster, emergency, or public health emergency"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 759"
citation: "Louisiana HB 759 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph Marino"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-03-31"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba09eb81-7135-4220-bfdd-4c3f8c7bedaf"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238671"
source_hash: "c1756753c6c3431d0e6b72de84c2a6314b53a18a9dc4cbb2fef73088bd8fec35"
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 759 (2020) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides for the suspension of certain time periods, limitations, and delays in declared states of disaster, emergency, or public health emergency

## Version chain

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

1. **HB759 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1167819)
2. **HB759 Act 285** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182362)
3. **HB759 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169590)
4. **HB759 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173265)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1654, Marino, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170624)
6. **HB759 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177939)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#592) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 759 BY MARINO (#159) — **60–35** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joseph Marino — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 06/11/2020.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 285. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-28** 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, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 60, nays 35. 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).
- **2020-05-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-31** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ba09eb81-7135-4220-bfdd-4c3f8c7bedaf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).