---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Creates database to track trafficking arrests, convictions, restitution, fines, and civil asset forfeiture. (8/1/23) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Creates database to track trafficking arrests, convictions, restitution, fines, and civil asset forfeiture. (8/1/23) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 31"
citation: "Louisiana SB 31 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beth Mizell"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-09"
last_action: "2023-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a93d3b0-f8fa-4f74-9ae9-5992fc098268"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243921"
source_hash: "96a72cb9ba48a3716748cbbd106c785b920e8b3e0fed28bfffd5aa27e683235b"
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 SB 31 (2023) — CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Creates database to track trafficking arrests, convictions, restitution, fines, and civil asset forfeiture. (8/1/23) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB31 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1302900)
2. **SB31 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332584)
3. **SB31 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315545)
4. **SB31 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316718)
5. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1017, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316640)
6. **SB31 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328153)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#140) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#808) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#141) — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beth Mizell — primary (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-14** Effective date 8/1/2023.
- **2023-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 386. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-02** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-01** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-31** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-31** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-30** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/31/2023.
- **2023-05-22** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-17** Reported favorably (9-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-02** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-01** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-04-27** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-04-25** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-09** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2a93d3b0-f8fa-4f74-9ae9-5992fc098268`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).