---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to expungement of records"
description: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to expungement of records"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 479"
citation: "Louisiana HB 479 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph Marino"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e39b2d2d-8b15-46e7-957e-96ad0964c91b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244446"
source_hash: "1b4e46847dea13749f670a289197ccdd800b7749f57db9ad44d73f1bb619d223"
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 479 (2023) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to expungement of records

## Version chain

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

1. **HB479 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309257)
2. **HB479 Act 90** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331612)
3. **HB479 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313999)
4. **HB479 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316467)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1568, Marino, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314414)
6. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1620, Foil, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321218)
7. **HB479 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326250)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#134) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#372) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#674) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joseph Marino — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 90. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-25** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-05-23** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/25/2023.
- **2023-05-18** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-18** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-10** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-09** 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 B. `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 98, nays 0. 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** Reported favorably (12-0). `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/e39b2d2d-8b15-46e7-957e-96ad0964c91b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).