---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/JUSTICE: Provides relative to the Louisiana Sexual Assault Oversight Commission"
description: "CRIMINAL/JUSTICE: Provides relative to the Louisiana Sexual Assault Oversight Commission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 234"
citation: "Louisiana HB 234 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Carpenter"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-26"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87dc8168-ad31-4eb9-80f3-a946c8c622d2"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240079"
source_hash: "b3f18428a3f503fdb84ded0a67e8e76bba8c26bcf0d5824b6acb1c1cf772f9c4"
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 234 (2021) — CRIMINAL/JUSTICE: Provides relative to the Louisiana Sexual Assault Oversight Commission

## Version chain

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

1. **HB234 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1207467)
2. **HB234 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235199)
3. **HB234 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216330)
4. **HB234 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229106)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#99) — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#499) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barbara Carpenter — primary (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Carter Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 06/11/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 188. `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.
- **2021-05-26** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 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** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-27** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2021.
- **2021-04-26** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-22** Reported favorably (9-0).
- **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.
- **2021-03-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/87dc8168-ad31-4eb9-80f3-a946c8c622d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).