---
type: "Bill"
title: "JUVENILES: Creates the Acadiana Regional Juvenile Justice District"
description: "JUVENILES: Creates the Acadiana Regional Juvenile Justice District"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 357"
citation: "Louisiana HB 357 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Huval"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-30"
last_action: "2023-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e8afc95a-73eb-4216-9361-77aaa191c7c2"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244263"
source_hash: "880512383d7adb361df2a65bb4f294bc42e3df3bdb143826d8d159b171142b88"
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 357 (2023) — JUVENILES: Creates the Acadiana Regional Juvenile Justice District

## Version chain

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

1. **HB357 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308103)
2. **HB357 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332133)
3. **HB357 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315440)
4. **HB357 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318833)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2305, Huval, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318645)
6. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #939, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316090)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2064, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324704)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2094, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324928)
9. **HB357 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328360)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#205) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#791) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#527) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mike Huval — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- John Stefanski — cosponsor (person)
- Jonathan Goudeau — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-07** Effective date: 06/07/2023.
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 166. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/2023.
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-29** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-24** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-23** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-04** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-03** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/03/2023.
- **2023-04-26** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-25** Reported favorably (9-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-18** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-17** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-30** Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e8afc95a-73eb-4216-9361-77aaa191c7c2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).