---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC SFTY/CORRECTIONS: Provides relative to the membership of the Reentry Advisory Council"
description: "PUBLIC SFTY/CORRECTIONS: Provides relative to the membership of the Reentry Advisory Council"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 422"
citation: "Louisiana HB 422 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Emerson"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a1436a5-b99c-49e6-8e82-13bb78a696f3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240352"
source_hash: "9166d0d58017b0b2c0dde52ff634cd5f8a647a67cbd41c88aa861d76bd2d48f0"
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 422 (2021) — PUBLIC SFTY/CORRECTIONS: Provides relative to the membership of the Reentry Advisory Council

## Version chain

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

1. **HB422 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210956)
2. **HB422 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235317)
3. **HB422 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217703)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2177, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225509)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2211, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225641)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2220, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225731)
7. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2376, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226616)
8. **HB422 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230989)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#507) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#915) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#199) — **103–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Julie Emerson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 236. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **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 with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. 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.
- **2021-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `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 103, 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-27** Reported favorably (12-0).
- **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.
- **2021-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a1436a5-b99c-49e6-8e82-13bb78a696f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).