---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/JURY TRIALS: Provides for the functions of the jury commission in Tangipahoa Parish and Jackson Parish"
description: "CRIMINAL/JURY TRIALS: Provides for the functions of the jury commission in Tangipahoa Parish and Jackson Parish"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 57"
citation: "Louisiana HB 57 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nicholas Muscarello"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-12"
last_action: "2020-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/505606ba-b292-40dd-a8a9-3c8d0f3dbfdd"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237473"
source_hash: "ef921f52ba860d94472d282c6d67a8714f96cb109c0b5ba64485f9216f51b6aa"
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 57 (2020) — CRIMINAL/JURY TRIALS: Provides for the functions of the jury commission in Tangipahoa Parish and Jackson Parish

## Version chain

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

1. **HB57 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1154210)
2. **HB57 Act 97** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180951)
3. **HB57 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169768)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1623, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173860)
5. **HB57 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178290)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#57) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#289) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#642) — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nicholas Muscarello — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/20.
- **2020-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 97. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2020-05-27** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
- **2020-05-21** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-05-21** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 33 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 with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, 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 (11-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/14/2020.
- **2020-02-12** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-12** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/505606ba-b292-40dd-a8a9-3c8d0f3dbfdd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).