republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2020/sb-229.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	EVIDENCE: Provides relative to evidence from criminalistics laboratories in Certificates of Analysis in juvenile court proceedings of a noncriminal nature. (gov sig)	EVIDENCE: Provides relative to evidence from criminalistics laboratories in Certificates of Analysis in juvenile court proceedings of a noncriminal nature. (gov sig)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020	SB 229	Louisiana SB 229 (2020)	bill		enacted	Patrick McMath	6	18	2	2020-02-27	2020-06-04	openstates	ocd-bill/578cc3a3-f715-47d9-9b87-d81dade6840d	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237981	8b3dc430defc9bbc4361c66ba38cc629da9020d589f3874d7595e5f33e76ba98	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 229 (2020) — EVIDENCE: Provides relative to evidence from criminalistics laboratories in Certificates of Analysis in juvenile court proceedings of a noncriminal nature. (gov sig)

Version chain

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

1. SB229 Original (filed) — source
2. SB229 Act 39 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB229 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. SB229 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1348, Mills, Fred, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. SB229 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#499) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#205) — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Patrick McMath — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-06-04 Effective date 6/4/2020.
• 2020-06-04 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 39. executive-signature
• 2020-06-01 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2020-05-31 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2020-05-29 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2020-05-28 Received from the House without amendments.
• 2020-05-28 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2020-05-22 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/20.
• 2020-05-21 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2020-05-20 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2020-05-20 Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2020-05-18 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2020-05-15 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2020-05-14 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2020-05-13 Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2020-05-12 Reported favorably.
• 2020-03-09 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. referral-committee
• 2020-02-27 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/578cc3a3-f715-47d9-9b87-d81dade6840d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).