republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/hb-160.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "JUVENILES: Provides relative to rights of victims of alleged delinquent acts (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "JUVENILES: Provides relative to rights of victims of alleged delinquent acts (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 160"
citation: "Louisiana HB 160 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephanie Hilferty"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-03-23"
last_action: "2023-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8bb33049-7acd-4e1d-962d-0ca4a2b063b5"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244018"
source_hash: "97a75037f5b9700d9a865f5666ecc9734c8fb21e2e69c1da06ddc8c56bb20ca9"
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 HB 160 (2023) — JUVENILES: Provides relative to rights of victims of alleged delinquent acts (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB160 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1304912)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #4089, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329942)
3. **HB160 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1333446)
4. **HB160 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315797)
5. **HB160 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318301)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1715, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315145)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1809, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315662)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #902, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315931)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2766, Smith, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329142)
10. **HB160 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331957)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#809) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1220) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1053) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#197) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1029) — **37–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stephanie Hilferty — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-29** Effective date: 01/01/2024.
- **2023-06-29** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 448. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-12** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/9/2023.
- **2023-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 37 yeas and 1 nays.
- **2023-06-08** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2023-06-08** Rules suspended.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee report received.
- **2023-06-07** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2023-06-07** House conferees appointed: Hilferty, Marino, and Stefanski.
- **2023-06-07** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2023-06-06** Senate conference committee members appointed: Smith, Duplessis, and Henry.
- **2023-06-06** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 102, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-31** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-03** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-02** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/02/2023.
- **2023-04-26** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-25** Reported with amendments (9-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/24/2023.
- **2023-03-23** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8bb33049-7acd-4e1d-962d-0ca4a2b063b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).