---
type: "Bill"
title: "PAROLE: Provides relative to parole (Item #1) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "PAROLE: Provides relative to parole (Item #1) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024s2"
identifier: "HB 9"
citation: "Louisiana HB 9 (2024s2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debbie Villio"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-08"
last_action: "2024-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6cf1b666-9a11-4d2a-92a0-736befa53c54"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245601"
source_hash: "8521bc3e0f5a0e1d55b8ab30849c80473e766ef6340968772d01118390a7e747"
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 9 (2024s2) — PAROLE: Provides relative to parole (Item #1) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB9 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1342732)
2. **HB9 Act 6** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353036)
3. **HB9 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344898)
4. **HB9 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345780)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #64, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344217)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #97, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344812)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #158, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345022)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #244, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346643)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #249, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346656)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #360, Barrow, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350032)
11. **HB9 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350295)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#51) — **71–33** (pass) · lower
- CRIMINAL JUSTICE (#12) — **72–30** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#72) — **28–11** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 360 BY BARROW, HB 9 BY VILLIO (#71) — **13–26** (fail) · upper
- SUSPEND THE RULES (#26) — **73–29** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Debbie Villio — primary (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-05** Effective date: 04/29/2024.
- **2024-03-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 6. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-02-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-02-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-02-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 11 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-02-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-26** Rules suspended. Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2024-02-26** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-25** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 71, nays 33. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-02-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 02/23/2024.
- **2024-02-22** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-02-22** Rules suspended.
- **2024-02-21** Reported with amendments (9-5). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-19** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-09** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/9/2024.
- **2024-02-08** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-08** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6cf1b666-9a11-4d2a-92a0-736befa53c54`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).