---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC DEFENDER: To create the office of state public defender and transfer authority from the Louisiana Public Defender Board. (gov sig) (Item #7) (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)"
description: "PUBLIC DEFENDER: To create the office of state public defender and transfer authority from the Louisiana Public Defender Board. (gov sig) (Item #7) (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024s2"
identifier: "SB 8"
citation: "Louisiana SB 8 (2024s2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Reese"]
version_count: 25
action_count: 19
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2024-02-09"
last_action: "2024-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1aa9cb93-ad2c-473e-927a-ad506944e425"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245612"
source_hash: "7dbbde158e1d239a84f60cc3cab4877a0fd618ff4ade0d7f24170ce79569b7ad"
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 SB 8 (2024s2) — PUBLIC DEFENDER: To create the office of state public defender and transfer authority from the Louisiana Public Defender Board. (gov sig) (Item #7) (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB8 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1342899)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #172, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347290)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #176, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347415)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #179, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347637)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #226, Villio, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349698)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #227, Bryant, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349918)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #228, Villio, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349964)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #229, Bryant, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349958)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #231, Landry, Mandie, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349988)
10. **House Floor Amendment, #232, Larvadain, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349979)
11. **House Floor Amendment, #233, Marcelle, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349987)
12. **House Floor Amendment, #234, Jordan, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350062)
13. **House Floor Amendment, #237, Bacala, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350179)
14. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #314, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1348094)
15. **SB8 Act 22** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377436)
16. **SB8 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344456)
17. **SB8 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345461)
18. **Senate Committee Amendment, #100, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344417)
19. **Senate Committee Amendment, #41, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1343690)
20. **Senate Committee Amendment, #92, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344330)
21. **Senate Committee Amendment, #95, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344343)
22. **Senate Floor Amendment, #152, Reese, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345028)
23. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #176, Reese, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345134)
24. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #130, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344774)
25. **SB8 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350506)

## Votes

- AMENDMENT # 234 BY JORDAN, MOTION TO ADOPT (#89) — **33–69** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#90) — **71–31** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 229 BY BRYANT, MOTION TO ADOPT (#86) — **33–67** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#34) — **27–12** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#77) — **28–11** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 227 BY BRYANT, MOTION TO ADOPT (#84) — **33–67** (fail) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 231 BY LANDRY, M., MOTION TO ADOPT (#88) — **33–68** (fail) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 233 BY MARCELLE, MOTION TO ADOPT (#85) — **31–69** (fail) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 232 BY LARVADAIN, MOTION TO ADOPT (#87) — **31–70** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mike Reese — primary (person)
- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-20** Effective date 3/20/2024.
- **2024-03-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 22. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-02-29** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 3/1/2024. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-02-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate on 3/1/2024. `enrolled`
- **2024-02-29** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 28 yeas and 11 nays.
- **2024-02-29** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-02-29** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 71, nays 31. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 02/29/2024.
- **2024-02-28** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-02-27** Reported with amendments (9-4). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-23** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-02-22** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 12 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-02-22** Senate floor amendments read and adopted; read by title and returned to its regular order on third reading and final passage.
- **2024-02-20** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-19** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-09** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1aa9cb93-ad2c-473e-927a-ad506944e425`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).