---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to post-sentence statements and documents (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to post-sentence statements and documents (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 23"
citation: "Louisiana HB 23 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nicholas Muscarello"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-26"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4db7512-55d0-4dff-a579-8852b8f66f5d"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247907"
source_hash: "d65730e681c0dcf1dbc412f8de25b05e8f406c8649c845bd7ceb0d6c520fa67f"
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 23 (2025) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to post-sentence statements and documents (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB23 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1394849)
2. **HB23 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422238)
3. **HB23 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407801)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1122, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405093)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1512, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407443)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1557, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407771)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1622, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414002)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1658, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414147)
9. **HB23 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418583)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#301) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#616) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#100) — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nicholas Muscarello — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 46. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-27** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/27/2025.
- **2025-05-21** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-20** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-19** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-14** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-13** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-30** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-29** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2025.
- **2025-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-23** Reported with amendments (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/28/2025.
- **2025-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c4db7512-55d0-4dff-a579-8852b8f66f5d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).