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type: "Bill"
title: "JUVENILES: Provides relative to the district attorney's discretion to prosecute a juvenile as an adult for certain offenses. (8/1/22)"
description: "JUVENILES: Provides relative to the district attorney's discretion to prosecute a juvenile as an adult for certain offenses. (8/1/22)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 71"
citation: "Louisiana SB 71 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick Connick"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-24"
last_action: "2022-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd983ade-c160-43c6-9e4e-b476d27e57ba"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241732"
source_hash: "08bf65e4c323c518ea9fa8bc46fe2f5c853b15cbab48201a0dd45437c5dd3e4f"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
---
# Louisiana SB 71 (2022) — JUVENILES: Provides relative to the district attorney's discretion to prosecute a juvenile as an adult for certain offenses. (8/1/22)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SB71 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1250141)
2. **SB71 Act 175** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286271)
3. **SB71 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1266114)
4. **SB71 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283528)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1163) — **910** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#174) — **370** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Patrick Connick — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-05-31** Effective date 8/1/2022.
- **2022-05-31** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 175. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/27/2022. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-26** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-26** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-25** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2022-05-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/25/2022.
- **2022-05-12** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-11** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-05-10** Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-07** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-04-07** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-04-06** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-04-05** Reported favorably.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dd983ade-c160-43c6-9e4e-b476d27e57ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).