---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Increases the total number of credits that may be earned by an offender upon earning a bachelor's degree or master's degree (EN DECREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Increases the total number of credits that may be earned by an offender upon earning a bachelor's degree or master's degree (EN DECREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 32"
citation: "Louisiana HB 32 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Selders"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-25"
last_action: "2021-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c30d57e-0046-4c06-b1ac-3c2d36cb925a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239807"
source_hash: "1f6f000c8802f16db6528fc6015a568e55bcca4ea1cf0e1b3d539f2e3ab76128"
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 32 (2021) — CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Increases the total number of credits that may be earned by an offender upon earning a bachelor's degree or master's degree (EN DECREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB32 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1200978)
2. **HB32 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230352)
3. **HB32 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216434)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1503, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216366)
5. **HB32 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224937)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#82) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#322) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Larry Selders — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-01** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 5. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-19** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-18** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-05-17** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-11** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-05** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-04** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `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 97, 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, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-22** Reported with amendments (9-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/26/2021.
- **2021-02-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1c30d57e-0046-4c06-b1ac-3c2d36cb925a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).