---
type: "Bill"
title: "JUVENILES: Provides relative to birth certificates and state identification for children leaving custody of the office of juvenile justice (EN +$7,001 GF EX See Note)"
description: "JUVENILES: Provides relative to birth certificates and state identification for children leaving custody of the office of juvenile justice (EN +$7,001 GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 94"
citation: "Louisiana HB 94 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matthew Willard"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-16"
last_action: "2024-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb21a88a-5075-4453-842b-9df292855ffa"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245643"
source_hash: "1f59f92e516127820990bfbd1e7dd6a8b49c467f6bcc2e46c50035feef539210"
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 94 (2024) — JUVENILES: Provides relative to birth certificates and state identification for children leaving custody of the office of juvenile justice (EN +$7,001 GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB94 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1343718)
2. **HB94 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379611)
3. **HB94 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358758)
4. **HB94 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375890)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#942) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#232) — **105–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Matthew Willard — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-24** Effective date: 05/24/2024.
- **2024-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 258. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-22** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** 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`
- **2024-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-08** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-07** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 105, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/03/2024.
- **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`
- **2024-02-16** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/16/2024.
- **2024-02-16** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-16** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb21a88a-5075-4453-842b-9df292855ffa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).