---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDRENS CODE: Provides relative to amendment of petitions in delinquency proceedings"
description: "CHILDRENS CODE: Provides relative to amendment of petitions in delinquency proceedings"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 70"
citation: "Louisiana HB 70 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Polly Thomas"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-05"
last_action: "2021-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45e51407-593f-4364-acff-c6c2cccf2fc8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239863"
source_hash: "65d3c5f5b9f593f668f8684cb8e4369a1590ea4415df494b5ad823e214053af3"
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 70 (2021) — CHILDRENS CODE: Provides relative to amendment of petitions in delinquency proceedings

## Version chain

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

1. **HB70 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1202436)
2. **HB70 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235462)
3. **HB70 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220678)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1896, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218592)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2225, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220589)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2120, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224989)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2121, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224990)
8. **HB70 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232572)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#694) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1011) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#361) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Polly Thomas — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-15** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 270. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/07/2021.
- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-06-02** 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`
- **2021-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-26** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-25** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-12** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-11** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2021.
- **2021-05-05** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-04** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-12** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/12/2021.
- **2021-03-08** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-05** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/5/2021.
- **2021-03-05** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/45e51407-593f-4364-acff-c6c2cccf2fc8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).