---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Authorizes CASA to receive FBI records on potential CASA volunteers"
description: "CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Authorizes CASA to receive FBI records on potential CASA volunteers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 204"
citation: "Louisiana HB 204 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward Ted James"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-24"
last_action: "2020-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b528ed7-451f-4662-97dd-a6f71138ad56"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237710"
source_hash: "37529033851f036d62c6306e991b9a86ea746352ae4058ace95db12b1af701f0"
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 204 (2020) — CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Authorizes CASA to receive FBI records on potential CASA volunteers

## Version chain

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

1. **HB204 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1158799)
2. **HB204 Act 24** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180223)
3. **HB204 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169770)
4. **HB204 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175277)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#68) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#300) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Edward Ted James — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 24. `executive-signature`
- **2020-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-25** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-21** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-19** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/24/2020.
- **2020-02-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b528ed7-451f-4662-97dd-a6f71138ad56`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).