---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides relative to records of prosecutive, investigative, and law enforcement agencies and communications districts"
description: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides relative to records of prosecutive, investigative, and law enforcement agencies and communications districts"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 38"
citation: "Louisiana HB 38 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony Bacala"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-06"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41cbd5ca-18bd-487c-9346-8da46c191105"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247924"
source_hash: "92b49ea3c18fe592002024aded68a1dba0886a6da6138f88f96c916638e5afcf"
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 38 (2025) — PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides relative to records of prosecutive, investigative, and law enforcement agencies and communications districts

## Version chain

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

1. **HB38 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1395635)
2. **HB38 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425008)
3. **HB38 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409976)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1766, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408797)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1967, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409952)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2043, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416839)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2098, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417020)
8. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2188, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417785)
9. **HB38 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421561)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#477) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#232) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#791) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tony Bacala — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 125. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/2025.
- **2025-05-29** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-28** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-27** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-06** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2025.
- **2025-04-30** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Reported with amendments (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-07** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/7/2025.
- **2025-03-06** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/41cbd5ca-18bd-487c-9346-8da46c191105`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).