---
type: "Bill"
title: "ATTORNEY GENERAL: Creates the Fugitive Apprehension Unit within the office of the attorney general (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "ATTORNEY GENERAL: Creates the Fugitive Apprehension Unit within the office of the attorney general (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 303"
citation: "Louisiana HB 303 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Bayham"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-02"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e7cea3a-67c3-4c20-87c6-e087c7d3884a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248268"
source_hash: "fd66fdab193870a2f73737d1775bd08aadbaa67bf1270310bcb984e456a3e70d"
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 303 (2025) — ATTORNEY GENERAL: Creates the Fugitive Apprehension Unit within the office of the attorney general (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB303 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402213)
2. **HB303 Act 264** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425576)
3. **HB303 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415359)
4. **HB303 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422852)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#501) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#701) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mike Bayham — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 264. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-08** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary C.
- **2025-05-27** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2025-05-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-20** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.
- **2025-05-19** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-15** Reported favorably (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e7cea3a-67c3-4c20-87c6-e087c7d3884a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).