---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to electronic bonds"
description: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to electronic bonds"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 505"
citation: "Louisiana HB 505 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Fontenot"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a69641c8-9206-4ecc-b782-477bf5beba35"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246263"
source_hash: "b99b69dc0bc97de07c511f5d2181c9c3a86ac8adf868e03bb917a2ea68d72470"
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 505 (2024) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to electronic bonds

## Version chain

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

1. **HB505 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351340)
2. **HB505 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382305)
3. **HB505 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358788)
4. **HB505 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364252)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2718, Fontenot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364139)
6. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2601, Morris, Jay, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369437)
7. **HB505 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379637)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#369) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#845) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1498) — **89–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryan Fontenot — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-10** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 564. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 89, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-23** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-09** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-09** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-04-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/09/2024.
- **2024-04-04** Notice given.
- **2024-04-04** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-04-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/2024.
- **2024-04-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-27** Reported favorably (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a69641c8-9206-4ecc-b782-477bf5beba35`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).