---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Provides relative to pleas of guilty or nolo contendere in felony cases"
description: "CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Provides relative to pleas of guilty or nolo contendere in felony cases"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 106"
citation: "Louisiana HB 106 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Carpenter"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-11"
last_action: "2021-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a941f22-97bd-414a-be0d-57e9faa9a2d7"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239905"
source_hash: "42cc298c0c2e945293c57c5bc95ba96393f0b627613317cb159611ff5df8aea2"
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 106 (2021) — CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Provides relative to pleas of guilty or nolo contendere in felony cases

## Version chain

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

1. **HB106 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1203506)
2. **HB106 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235464)
3. **HB106 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220548)
4. **HB106 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223585)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2145, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220042)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2222, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220520)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2711, James, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223299)
8. **HB106 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232894)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#846) — **33–4** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#362) — **69–25** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara Carpenter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-15** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 271. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 4 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-25** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-12** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-11** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 69, nays 25. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2021.
- **2021-05-05** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-04** Reported with amendments (13-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-12** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/12/2021.
- **2021-03-12** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3a941f22-97bd-414a-be0d-57e9faa9a2d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).