--- type: "Bill" title: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to jury polling and disposition" description: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to jury polling and disposition" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2025" identifier: "HB 292" citation: "Louisiana HB 292 (2025)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Alonzo Knox"] version_count: 4 action_count: 19 vote_count: 2 first_action: "2025-04-02" last_action: "2025-06-04" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/478aa9e5-7dc7-4db2-b6e5-dae678207258" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248257" source_hash: "9edac8d5bac153e8de72e70b0f18ec0f06dd5e4cb7c9c97e36703ef192747c50" 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 292 (2025) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to jury polling and disposition ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB292 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402182) 2. **HB292 Act 76** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422289) 3. **HB292 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407617) 4. **HB292 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419242) ## Votes - FINAL PASSAGE (#138) — **94–3** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#440) — **34–2** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Alonzo Knox — 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. 76. `became-law, executive-signature` - **2025-05-30** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt` - **2025-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/29/2025. - **2025-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled` - **2025-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt` - **2025-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2025-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3` - **2025-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **2025-05-14** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-05-05** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee` - **2025-04-30** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1` - **2025-04-30** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 3. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2025-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/2025. - **2025-04-24** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2025-04-23** Reported favorably (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee` - **2025-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee` - **2025-04-02** Prefiled. `filing` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/478aa9e5-7dc7-4db2-b6e5-dae678207258`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).