---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the funding of the criminalistics laboratory commissions"
description: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the funding of the criminalistics laboratory commissions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1071"
citation: "Louisiana HB 1071 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Bagley"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-05-02"
last_action: "2022-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6aecf756-10b8-4ac9-a8aa-fb411673125a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243405"
source_hash: "50b4bfa89ee537b1a75b304cab7b99c6923f6c785da30e7e1cb908bf7013a0bc"
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 1071 (2022) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the funding of the criminalistics laboratory commissions

## Version chain

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

1. **HB1071 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1274565)
2. **HB1071 Act 235** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286813)
3. **HB1071 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1274774)
4. **HB1071 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283040)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#736) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#831) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Larry Bagley — primary (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-31** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-31** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 235. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-26** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-25** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-24** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-24** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-19** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-18** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-17** Reported favorably.
- **2022-05-11** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-10** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-05-10** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-10** Called from the calendar.
- **2022-05-10** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2022-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/10/2022.
- **2022-05-03** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-02** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 840 reported by the Committee on Judiciary (9-0).

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6aecf756-10b8-4ac9-a8aa-fb411673125a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).