---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides relative to expungement of records"
description: "CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides relative to expungement of records"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 241"
citation: "Louisiana HB 241 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward Ted James"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-26"
last_action: "2020-06-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de86c276-0f03-4113-bf8d-0589baae9e99"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237793"
source_hash: "80019289a02846e8bdde606df9e9db9244a34e9e45fa2fae718205d7d7173d69"
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 241 (2020) — CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides relative to expungement of records

## Version chain

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

1. **HB241 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1159758)
2. **HB241 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180298)
3. **HB241 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172304)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1798, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171395)
5. **HB241 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177620)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#521) — **28–3** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#389) — **73–19** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Edward Ted James — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-05** Effective date: 08/01/20.
- **2020-06-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 78. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 3 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-28** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-25** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 73, nays 19. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-22** Called from the calendar.
- **2020-05-22** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2020-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/20.
- **2020-05-18** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-15** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/de86c276-0f03-4113-bf8d-0589baae9e99`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).