---
type: "Bill"
title: "CORRECTIONS: Provides for a Transitional Residential Pilot Program for female offenders (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
description: "CORRECTIONS: Provides for a Transitional Residential Pilot Program for female offenders (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 271"
citation: "Louisiana HB 271 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Denise Marcelle"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 28
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9212981-414c-4096-b830-140bfd6ef207"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240126"
source_hash: "8125a2c8f02a7a257b56f23cfeb9282f28ae78126ad469a32b35fc00411dc848"
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 271 (2021) — CORRECTIONS: Provides for a Transitional Residential Pilot Program for female offenders (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. **HB271 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1208403)
2. **HB271 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235537)
3. **HB271 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216383)
4. **HB271 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218694)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1674, Marcelle, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217190)
6. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #951, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216775)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2193, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225558)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2218, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225722)
9. **HB271 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233681)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#124) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#501) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1152) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- C. Denise Marcelle — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-14** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 304. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-08** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-06-07** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
- **2021-06-07** Notice given.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-06-01** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/02/2021.
- **2021-05-26** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-26** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 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** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-18** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
- **2021-05-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-29** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-28** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-04-28** Read by title, amended, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2021.
- **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`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f9212981-414c-4096-b830-140bfd6ef207`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).