--- type: "Bill" title: "CRIMINAL RECORDS: Provides relative to the expungement of felony convictions. (8/1/24)" description: "CRIMINAL RECORDS: Provides relative to the expungement of felony convictions. (8/1/24)" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2024" identifier: "SB 116" citation: "Louisiana SB 116 (2024)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Katrina Jackson-Andrews"] version_count: 8 action_count: 35 vote_count: 5 first_action: "2024-02-28" last_action: "2024-06-11" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6b1f7f9-04c6-4f97-90e7-bbbf7d35508b" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246007" source_hash: "b24713094db484057f7da448aaab4d6c54fef3f0e198db21ac54a84cafa62666" 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 116 (2024) — CRIMINAL RECORDS: Provides relative to the expungement of felony convictions. (8/1/24) ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **SB116 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349429) 2. **Conference Committee Report, #4418, House Proposed, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380827) 3. **House Floor Amendment, #5262, Johnson, Travis, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379726) 4. **SB116 Act 580** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382241) 5. **SB116 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363833) 6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1739, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363455) 7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1773, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363708) 8. **SB116 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381571) ## Votes - FINAL PASSAGE (#297) — **35–2** (pass) · upper - ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1746) — **98–0** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#1604) — **95–0** (pass) · lower - REJECT (#1342) — **34–0** (pass) · upper - ADOPT (#1447) — **37–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Katrina Jackson-Andrews — primary (person) - Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2024-06-11** Effective date 8/1/2024. - **2024-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 580. `became-law, executive-signature` - **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/4/2024. `executive-receipt` - **2024-06-03** Signed by the Speaker of the House. - **2024-06-03** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled` - **2024-06-03** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report. - **2024-06-03** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted. - **2024-06-03** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report. - **2024-05-31** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2024. - **2024-06-02** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays. - **2024-05-31** Conference committee report received. - **2024-05-31** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules. - **2024-05-31** Notice of Senate conferees appointed. - **2024-05-31** Senate conference committee members appointed: Jackson-Andrews, Kleinpeter, and Morris. - **2024-05-30** House conferees appointed: Travis Johnson, Villio, and Bacala. - **2024-05-30** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed. - **2024-05-30** Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments. - **2024-05-30** Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays. - **2024-05-29** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt` - **2024-05-29** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2024-05-29** Called from the calendar. - **2024-05-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/2024. - **2024-05-28** Notice given. - **2024-05-28** Read by title, returned to the calendar. - **2024-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/2024. - **2024-05-23** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2024-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. - **2024-05-21** Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-04-17** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee` - **2024-04-16** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules. - **2024-04-16** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 2 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2024-04-15** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage. - **2024-04-09** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee` - **2024-02-28** 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/b6b1f7f9-04c6-4f97-90e7-bbbf7d35508b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).