republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2019/hb-351.md

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Bill	CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Provides relative to pleas of guilty or nolo contendere in felony cases	CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Provides relative to pleas of guilty or nolo contendere in felony cases	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2019	HB 351	Louisiana HB 351 (2019)	bill		enacted	Barbara Carpenter	8	19	2	2019-03-29	2019-06-06	openstates	ocd-bill/e8f0e71f-8fbb-4ecc-b407-10eaa560a7eb	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236167	3dd44e3a30fe0c1bf054f349871888c5800983df6e332020dc4162b736ed2314	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 351 (2019) — CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Provides relative to pleas of guilty or nolo contendere in felony cases

Version chain

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

1. HB351 Original (filed) — source
2. HB351 Act 158 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB351 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB351 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1973, ACRJ, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. House Floor Amendment, #2402, Marino, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1481, Pierre, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. HB351 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#287) — 88–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#508) — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barbara Carpenter — primary (person)
• Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-06-06 Effective date: 08/01/2019.
• 2019-06-06 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 158. executive-signature
• 2019-05-29 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2019-05-29 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2019-05-29 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2019-05-28 Received from the Senate without amendments.
• 2019-05-27 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
• 2019-05-23 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2019-05-22 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2019-05-21 Reported favorably.
• 2019-05-16 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. referral-committee
• 2019-05-15 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2019-05-14 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2019-05-02 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/19.
• 2019-05-02 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2019-05-01 Reported with amendments (8-6).
• 2019-04-08 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2019-03-29 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2019-03-29 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e8f0e71f-8fbb-4ecc-b407-10eaa560a7eb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).