republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2020/hb-178.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	PROBATION: Provides relative to the suspension or deferral of sentence and probation in felony cases (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)	PROBATION: Provides relative to the suspension or deferral of sentence and probation in felony cases (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020	HB 178	Louisiana HB 178 (2020)	bill		enacted	Joseph Marino	7	18	2	2020-02-24	2020-06-05	openstates	ocd-bill/8ea84ae4-805c-4f87-95bc-99814ecbaa7d	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237684	6334ca180de361853885e11042fba7dc27c3665bfdf7ebbe4dc3bc836aed2b18	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 178 (2020) — PROBATION: Provides relative to the suspension or deferral of sentence and probation in felony cases (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB178 Original (filed) — source
2. HB178 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB178 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #1151, ACRJ, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1515, ACRJ, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #1560, ACRJ, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. HB178 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#151) — 89–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#410) — 33–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Joseph Marino — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-06-05 Effective date: 08/01/20.
• 2020-06-05 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 70. executive-signature
• 2020-06-01 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2020-05-29 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2020-05-28 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2020-05-28 Received from the Senate without amendments.
• 2020-05-27 Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2020-05-26 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2020-05-26 Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2020-05-18 Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. referral-committee
• 2020-05-15 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2020-05-13 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
• 2020-05-13 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2020-05-07 Reported with amendments (11-0).
• 2020-03-09 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2020-02-24 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/24/2020.
• 2020-02-24 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2020-02-24 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8ea84ae4-805c-4f87-95bc-99814ecbaa7d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).