---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Provides relative to discharge and dismissals of prosecutions for misdemeanor convictions"
description: "CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Provides relative to discharge and dismissals of prosecutions for misdemeanor convictions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 232"
citation: "Louisiana HB 232 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph Marino"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-25"
last_action: "2021-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/93c5c57e-0825-4e73-836b-cfc083f6d54f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240074"
source_hash: "bdbad5e75e6b473d53178830764ab28be16e95c064fe433b6dde998fda4abc2d"
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 232 (2021) — CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Provides relative to discharge and dismissals of prosecutions for misdemeanor convictions

## Version chain

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

1. **HB232 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1207285)
2. **HB232 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1234510)
3. **HB232 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217766)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1637, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217091)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1743, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217730)
6. **HB232 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230138)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#194) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#599) — **29–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joseph Marino — primary (person)
- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-10** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 124. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 8 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-18** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/04/2021.
- **2021-04-28** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-27** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
- **2021-03-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/93c5c57e-0825-4e73-836b-cfc083f6d54f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).