---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN: Provides relative to truancy and assessment and service centers. (gov sig)"
description: "CHILDREN: Provides relative to truancy and assessment and service centers. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 73"
citation: "Louisiana SB 73 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert Mills"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-28"
last_action: "2023-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/99559b81-d790-4131-b5d9-9e395f71dfe3"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244180"
source_hash: "836ed87bf4874bec09719a3ec5745589752493aa8a06b13955414eec24a9bc9a"
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 SB 73 (2023) — CHILDREN: Provides relative to truancy and assessment and service centers. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB73 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1306957)
2. **SB73 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332585)
3. **SB73 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312884)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #541, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312514)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #581, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312804)
6. **SB73 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328121)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#103) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#810) — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Robert Mills — primary (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
- Jonathan Goudeau — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-14** Effective date 6/14/2023.
- **2023-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 387. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-02** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-01** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-31** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-31** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays . Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-30** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/31/2023.
- **2023-05-22** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-17** Reported favorably (10-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-01** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-27** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-04-26** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-04-19** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-04-18** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/99559b81-d790-4131-b5d9-9e395f71dfe3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).