---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to changes for post conviction relief procedures (Item #17) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)"
description: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to changes for post conviction relief procedures (Item #17) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024s2"
identifier: "HB 4"
citation: "Louisiana HB 4 (2024s2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Emerson"]
version_count: 14
action_count: 26
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-08"
last_action: "2024-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ff88677-5fc4-4107-a52f-eb8e559c3fd1"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245596"
source_hash: "f75b4e2ed1adc3b121b70355bd2a0c6c573d7e613b50f216f65ab1ee5beba42b"
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 4 (2024s2) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to changes for post conviction relief procedures (Item #17) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB4 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1342727)
2. **HB4 Act 10** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353039)
3. **HB4 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344472)
4. **HB4 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345417)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #73, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344298)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #74, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344453)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #111, Emerson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345098)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #248, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346704)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #257, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347006)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #260, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347017)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #353, McMath, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349717)
12. **Senate Floor Amendment, #361, McMath, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350063)
13. **Senate Floor Amendment, #362, McMath, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350092)
14. **HB4 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350277)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#95) — **73–27** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#70) — **28–11** (pass) · upper
- CRIMINAL JUSTICE (#7) — **72–29** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#32) — **73–31** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 353 BY MCMATH, HB 4 BY EMERSON (#69) — **26–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Julie Emerson — primary (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-05** Effective date: 08/1/2024.
- **2024-03-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 10. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-02-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-02-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-02-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 73, nays 27, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-02-29** Rules suspended.
- **2024-02-29** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-02-29** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 11 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-02-28** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **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** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 73, nays 31. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-02-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 02/22/2024.
- **2024-02-21** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-02-20** Reported with amendments (8-6). `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/9ff88677-5fc4-4107-a52f-eb8e559c3fd1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).