---
type: "Bill"
title: "PARDON/PAROLE: Provides relative to the confidentiality of records from certain hearings of the Board of Pardons and committee on parole (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
description: "PARDON/PAROLE: Provides relative to the confidentiality of records from certain hearings of the Board of Pardons and committee on parole (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 49"
citation: "Louisiana HB 49 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Melerine"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-10"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16bf902c-4b34-4229-95e3-0c91b983f79a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247935"
source_hash: "031c869dd0f1edad286c3eacb1db0db35aa9c2fe9fb6d26d42f9a1d5694009db"
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 49 (2025) — PARDON/PAROLE: Provides relative to the confidentiality of records from certain hearings of the Board of Pardons and committee on parole (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB49 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1396011)
2. **HB49 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425019)
3. **HB49 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407808)
4. **HB49 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413150)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1550, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407742)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2287, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411609)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2526, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413041)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #607, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1396219)
9. **HB49 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420814)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#555) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#411) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Michael Melerine — primary (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Bamburg Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (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. 128. `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.
- **2025-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-28** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-14** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-14** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-14** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-05-14** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2025.
- **2025-05-12** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-08** Reported with amendments (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- **2025-04-23** Reported with amendments (10-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/14/2025.
- **2025-03-10** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16bf902c-4b34-4229-95e3-0c91b983f79a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).