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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "BAIL: Provides relative to the posting of bail"
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description: "BAIL: Provides relative to the posting of bail"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
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legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
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session: "2021"
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identifier: "HB 708"
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citation: "Louisiana HB 708 (2021)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Fontenot"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2021-05-13"
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last_action: "2021-06-11"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5fd50218-f9bb-47d3-9f83-2547b500baae"
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source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241044"
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source_hash: "9509dcfc077c3230b3c2e9e8cf43a296225888a4c495c151f6bc63fdc05bb855"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
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---
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# Louisiana HB 708 (2021) — BAIL: Provides relative to the posting of bail
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB708 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224353)
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2. **HB708 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235324)
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3. **HB708 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224680)
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4. **HB708 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231638)
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## Votes
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#730) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#597) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Bryan Fontenot — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
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- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 243. `executive-signature`
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- **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
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- **2021-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
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- **2021-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
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- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
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- **2021-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
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- **2021-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
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- **2021-06-01** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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- **2021-05-24** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
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- **2021-05-20** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
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- **2021-05-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
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- **2021-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2021.
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- **2021-05-17** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
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- **2021-05-13** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 83 reported by the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice (10-0).
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5fd50218-f9bb-47d3-9f83-2547b500baae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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