---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to sequestration of jurors"
description: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to sequestration of jurors"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 271"
citation: "Louisiana HB 271 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Richard Nelson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-28"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/431b9481-72c0-40d7-bdf2-8e0d47bf7dc8"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244151"
source_hash: "db86ad38e4c41ad3b651bf25dd9a9157c6284653a1c026029f8910e88bd04f72"
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 (2023) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to sequestration of jurors

## Version chain

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

1. **HB271 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1306728)
2. **HB271 Act 75** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331588)
3. **HB271 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313961)
4. **HB271 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326534)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#507) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#112) — **87–17** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Richard Nelson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 75. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-23** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 17. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/25/2023.
- **2023-04-24** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** Reported favorably (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/431b9481-72c0-40d7-bdf2-8e0d47bf7dc8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).