---
type: "Bill"
title: "JUVENILES/JURISDICTION: Creates a Juvenile Justice District to include the parishes of Ascension, Assumption, St. Charles, St. James, and St. John the Baptist (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)"
description: "JUVENILES/JURISDICTION: Creates a Juvenile Justice District to include the parishes of Ascension, Assumption, St. Charles, St. James, and St. John the Baptist (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 359"
citation: "Louisiana HB 359 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gregory A. Miller"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-30"
last_action: "2023-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/25608781-5c2b-47b7-a6db-80c083ca3a98"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244265"
source_hash: "212b3992a85c14abb6856c301f83f862aea2fde3609137920abf83ab49deaba4"
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 359 (2023) — JUVENILES/JURISDICTION: Creates a Juvenile Justice District to include the parishes of Ascension, Assumption, St. Charles, St. James, and St. John the Baptist (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB359 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308106)
2. **HB359 Act 145** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332113)
3. **HB359 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315877)
4. **HB359 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318863)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1598, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314566)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1812, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315691)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2281, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318512)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #905, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315945)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2065, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324713)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2092, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324927)
11. **HB359 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328290)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#207) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#792) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#528) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gregory A. Miller — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-07** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 145. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/2023.
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-29** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 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** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-23** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-04** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-03** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/03/2023.
- **2023-04-26** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-25** Reported with amendments (9-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-18** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-17** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-30** Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/25608781-5c2b-47b7-a6db-80c083ca3a98`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).