---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides relative to the availability of certain criminal justice system data to certain nonprofit entities (Item #63) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides relative to the availability of certain criminal justice system data to certain nonprofit entities (Item #63) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020s2"
identifier: "HB 2"
citation: "Louisiana HB 2 (2020s2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward Ted James"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-09-24"
last_action: "2020-10-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42a7941d-7607-46d7-a7f6-32b829032713"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239411"
source_hash: "2c04a312e345a0677ed921e25426b4556ba249b65553c2f3a56d1efa4e524e3d"
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 2 (2020s2) — CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides relative to the availability of certain criminal justice system data to certain nonprofit entities (Item #63) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB2 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1188666)
2. **HB2 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1193739)
3. **HB2 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1190175)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #109, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1189038)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #196, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1190168)
6. **HB2 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1192707)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#18) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#112) — **7–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#111) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Edward Ted James — primary (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (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. 5. `executive-signature`
- **2020-10-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-10-19** Signed by the President of the Senate on 10/16/2020.
- **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 35 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.
- **2020-10-05** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2020-10-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **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`
- **2020-09-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-09-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/42a7941d-7607-46d7-a7f6-32b829032713`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).