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| Bill | CRIME: Repeals crimes relative to defamation | CRIME: Repeals crimes relative to defamation | us/states/la | Louisiana Legislature | 2021 | HB 23 | Louisiana HB 23 (2021) |
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Louisiana HB 23 (2021) — CRIME: Repeals crimes relative to defamation
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- HB23 Original (filed) — source
- HB23 Act (committee substitute) — source
- HB23 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
- HB23 Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#80) — 93–1 (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#491) — 35–1 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Charles Owen — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-06-04 Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- 2021-06-04 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 60.
executive-signature - 2021-06-02 Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
executive-receipt - 2021-06-01 Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/28/2021.
- 2021-05-27 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- 2021-05-26 Received from the Senate without amendments.
- 2021-05-26 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
passage - 2021-05-20 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- 2021-05-19 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- 2021-05-18 Reported favorably.
- 2021-04-28 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.
referral-committee - 2021-04-27 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- 2021-04-27 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
passage - 2021-04-26 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2021.
- 2021-04-26 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- 2021-04-22 Reported favorably (10-0).
- 2021-04-12 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
referral-committee - 2021-02-26 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/26/2021.
- 2021-02-22 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
referral-committee - 2021-02-22 Prefiled.
filing
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bfe0ce73-4bbf-49e0-aa8c-9b51266840f3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).