---
type: "Bill"
title: "PARDON/PAROLE: Provides relative to meetings of the Board of Pardons and the committee on parole (Items #25, 28, and 40) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
description: "PARDON/PAROLE: Provides relative to meetings of the Board of Pardons and the committee on parole (Items #25, 28, and 40) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020s2"
identifier: "HB 12"
citation: "Louisiana HB 12 (2020s2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph Marino"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-09-25"
last_action: "2020-10-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ec462a6-dca8-4b99-84a7-007d5b121ff1"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239425"
source_hash: "c524100aa0dfc94f3c2bda324c382b1d4f92b86511fae0a9435958cc9d8fae5a"
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 12 (2020s2) — PARDON/PAROLE: Provides relative to meetings of the Board of Pardons and the committee on parole (Items #25, 28, and 40) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB12 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1188859)
2. **HB12 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1193740)
3. **HB12 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1190194)
4. **HB12 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191278)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #187, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1190109)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #188, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1190102)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #194, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1190183)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #243, Marino, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1190415)
9. **HB12 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1192701)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#49) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#113) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joseph Marino — primary (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-10-20** Effective date: 10/20/2020.
- **2020-10-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 6. `executive-signature`
- **2020-10-20** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-10-19** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-10-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-10-14** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-10-14** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-10-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-10-13** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-10-07** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2020-10-06** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-10-06** Called from the calendar.
- **2020-10-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 10/06/20.
- **2020-10-02** Notice given.
- **2020-10-02** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2020-10-01** Scheduled for floor debate on 10/02/20.
- **2020-10-01** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-10-01** Rules suspended.
- **2020-10-01** Reported with amendments (8-0).
- **2020-09-28** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-09-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-09-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9ec462a6-dca8-4b99-84a7-007d5b121ff1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).