---
type: "Bill"
title: "JUVENILES: Provides for the governance of the Juvenile Justice District and adds Lafourche Parish to the Juvenile Justice District. (8/1/25)"
description: "JUVENILES: Provides for the governance of the Juvenile Justice District and adds Lafourche Parish to the Juvenile Justice District. (8/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 165"
citation: "Louisiana SB 165 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gregory A. Miller"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54927b19-9c43-480d-8187-46438302e477"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248647"
source_hash: "81f72a2ae4209b1eba870579df61f7df480e2ab7758ff9f911dacbeff77758f4"
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 165 (2025) — JUVENILES: Provides for the governance of the Juvenile Justice District and adds Lafourche Parish to the Juvenile Justice District. (8/1/25)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB165 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404441)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #3222, House Adopted, Senate Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424840)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3182, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416271)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3632, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418703)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3848, Bacala, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420174)
6. **SB165 Act 435** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426037)
7. **SB165 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412198)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1333, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412015)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1364, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412153)
10. **SB165 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425227)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#961) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- REJECT (#878) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT (#993) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#235) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1275) — **96–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gregory A. Miller — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 435. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-12** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/13/2025. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-12** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/13/2025. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-12** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-12** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2025-06-12** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2025-06-12** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 96, nays 2. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2025-06-12** Rules suspended.
- **2025-06-12** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2025-06-12** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-11** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2025-06-11** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2025-06-11** Senate conference committee members appointed: Miller, Allain, and Reese.
- **2025-06-11** House conferees appointed: Bacala, Villio, and Wiley.
- **2025-06-10** Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments.
- **2025-06-10** Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-08** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/08/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Notice given.
- **2025-06-04** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-02** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-28** Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-13** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-13** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-08** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-05-07** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/54927b19-9c43-480d-8187-46438302e477`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).