---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/JUSTICE: Creates the Truth and Transparency in the Louisiana Criminal Justice System Program (Item #5) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "CRIMINAL/JUSTICE: Creates the Truth and Transparency in the Louisiana Criminal Justice System Program (Item #5) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024s2"
identifier: "HB 1"
citation: "Louisiana HB 1 (2024s2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony Bacala"]
version_count: 19
action_count: 23
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-02-08"
last_action: "2024-03-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f1458e1e-9825-4ab9-9434-1ac6ca30d719"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245593"
source_hash: "6a6a89b065f7ddb51bbd90ae923d4bee4d9d1c91c1b96f379fef0aa54e941506"
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 1 (2024s2) — CRIMINAL/JUSTICE: Creates the Truth and Transparency in the Louisiana Criminal Justice System Program (Item #5) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB1 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1342725)
2. **HB1 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353227)
3. **HB1 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344800)
4. **HB1 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345824)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #47, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1343775)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #83, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344632)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #84, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344641)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #88, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344780)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #110, Bacala, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345027)
10. **House Floor Amendment, #127, Knox, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345549)
11. **House Floor Amendment, #130, Knox, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345602)
12. **House Floor Amendment, #133, Jordan, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345663)
13. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #159, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345024)
14. **Senate Committee Amendment, #232, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346400)
15. **Senate Committee Amendment, #258, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347011)
16. **Senate Floor Amendment, #333, Jackson-Andrews, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1348913)
17. **Senate Floor Amendment, #336, Bouie, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1348899)
18. **Senate Floor Amendment, #337, Luneau, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1348904)
19. **HB1 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349572)

## Votes

- AMENDMENT # 337 BY LUNEAU, HB 1 BY BACALA (#52) — **10–27** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#54) — **27–9** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#80) — **71–25** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 336 BY BOUIE, HB 1 BY BACALA (#51) — **10–27** (fail) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 333 BY JACKSON-ANDREWS, HB 1 BY BACALA (#53) — **10–27** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#44) — **72–30** (pass) · lower
- SUSPEND THE RULES (#4) — **72–26** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tony Bacala — primary (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-06** Effective date: 03/6/2024.
- **2024-03-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 15. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-02-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-02-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-02-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 72, nays 22, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-02-28** Scheduled for concurrence on 02/29/2024.
- **2024-02-28** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-02-28** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-02-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-02-27** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-26** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2024-02-26** Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
- **2024-02-26** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-25** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 72, nays 30. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-02-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 02/23/2024.
- **2024-02-22** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** Reported with amendments (13-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-19** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-09** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/9/2024.
- **2024-02-08** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-08** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f1458e1e-9825-4ab9-9434-1ac6ca30d719`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).