---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to changes for post conviction relief procedures"
description: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to changes for post conviction relief procedures"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 230"
citation: "Louisiana HB 230 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephanie Hilferty"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-27"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4370d14d-0dfc-444f-a0c2-64db63ba2a6d"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245843"
source_hash: "13d48a6ca33b6b5b3b2947b3b3c3f54f452313ad6eda38657c7f2f3a7921fe94"
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 230 (2024) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to changes for post conviction relief procedures

## Version chain

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

1. **HB230 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347584)
2. **HB230 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379525)
3. **HB230 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358132)
4. **HB230 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374167)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#189) — **88–14** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#639) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stephanie Hilferty — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-23** Effective date: 05/23/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 207. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-17** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-14** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-13** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-30** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 14. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/02/2024.
- **2024-03-27** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-26** Reported favorably (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4370d14d-0dfc-444f-a0c2-64db63ba2a6d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).