---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Provides relative to eligibility for parole or diminution of sentence (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
description: "CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Provides relative to eligibility for parole or diminution of sentence (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 208"
citation: "Louisiana HB 208 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debbie Villio"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-01"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/66b2b889-2927-4278-b0dd-8c31524cf5c9"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248135"
source_hash: "a3af3bee33d5b22a42dedc59472850c5077eb0acf02e86cbbe75050759842d94"
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 208 (2025) — CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Provides relative to eligibility for parole or diminution of sentence (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB208 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400842)
2. **HB208 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425077)
3. **HB208 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405930)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1927, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416089)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1961, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416296)
6. **HB208 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421389)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#796) — **83–11** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#124) — **90–7** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#467) — **26–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Debbie Villio — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date: 06/08/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 158. `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 83, nays 11, 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 26 yeas and 12 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-21** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended.
- **2025-05-20** Reported with amendments. `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 90, nays 7. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/2025.
- **2025-04-24** Notice given.
- **2025-04-24** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2025.
- **2025-04-22** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Reported favorably (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/66b2b889-2927-4278-b0dd-8c31524cf5c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).