---
type: "Bill"
title: "EVIDENCE: Provides relative to admissibility of evidence of a defendant's creative or artistic expression"
description: "EVIDENCE: Provides relative to admissibility of evidence of a defendant's creative or artistic expression"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 475"
citation: "Louisiana HB 475 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tanner Magee"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/286462ef-34a4-4803-acd5-3e5d7bf9cd70"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244432"
source_hash: "b281e33832827efb6f040b3a60d72c5fee9b8073e0b805420d49c27656e7ae16"
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 475 (2023) — EVIDENCE: Provides relative to admissibility of evidence of a defendant's creative or artistic expression

## Version chain

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

1. **HB475 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309162)
2. **HB475 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332511)
3. **HB475 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314097)
4. **HB475 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316424)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1385, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313402)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1502, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314057)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1867, Magee, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316124)
8. **HB475 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329670)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#133) — **56–35** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#736) — **24–13** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tanner Magee — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-12** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 354. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 24 yeas and 13 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-17** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-16** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-02** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary C.
- **2023-05-02** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2023-05-01** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-27** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-26** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 56, nays 35. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/26/2023.
- **2023-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** Reported with amendments (7-3-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/286462ef-34a4-4803-acd5-3e5d7bf9cd70`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).