---
type: "Bill"
title: "CORRECTIONS/PRISONERS: Provides relative to solitary confinement (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "CORRECTIONS/PRISONERS: Provides relative to solitary confinement (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 457"
citation: "Louisiana HB 457 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Denise Marcelle"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3460c601-f4a4-46df-9804-d41ff8fef736"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248464"
source_hash: "1cabc04be35a5110a89de9d48b39e1bed6598e6fa9f82cc2dc5d43d0d617ddd6"
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 457 (2025) — CORRECTIONS/PRISONERS: Provides relative to solitary confinement (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB457 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403680)
2. **HB457 Act 278** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425592)
3. **HB457 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416566)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2819, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414501)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3228, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416545)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2672, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420716)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2738, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421156)
8. **HB457 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423406)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1004) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#717) — **36–2** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#655) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- C. Denise Marcelle — primary (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 278. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-09** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-08** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/09/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-28** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-27** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/2025.
- **2025-05-22** Notice given.
- **2025-05-22** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2025.
- **2025-05-21** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-20** Reported with amendments (8-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3460c601-f4a4-46df-9804-d41ff8fef736`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).