republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/hb-265.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides relative to release and dissemination of booking photographs of an arrested person"
description: "CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides relative to release and dissemination of booking photographs of an arrested person"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 265"
citation: "Louisiana HB 265 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Fontenot"]
version_count: 15
action_count: 22
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-03-28"
last_action: "2023-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab4c35b5-49ff-41e5-b954-42cd3b7dba19"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244145"
source_hash: "7c45bd8db795a22fd9277b8696117a18689cb7bfd766ad9b56cb27a937e7e634"
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 265 (2023) — CRIMINAL/RECORDS: Provides relative to release and dissemination of booking photographs of an arrested person

## Version chain

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

1. **HB265 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1306594)
2. **HB265 Act 303** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332456)
3. **HB265 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314120)
4. **HB265 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315833)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1400, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313406)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1403, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313405)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1445, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313591)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #1494, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314038)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #1704, Marino, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315074)
10. **House Floor Amendment, #1780, Marino, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315475)
11. **House Floor Amendment, #1781, Marino, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315474)
12. **House Floor Amendment, #1823, Ivey, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315702)
13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2066, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324708)
14. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2733, Morris, Jay, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328895)
15. **HB265 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330999)

## Votes

- AMENDMENT # 1781 BY MARINO, MOTION TO ADOPT (#107) — **46–54** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#762) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#111) — **62–41** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 1780 BY MARINO, MOTION TO ADOPT (#108) — **47–51** (fail) · lower
- HOUSE AND GOVERNMENT (#110) — **39–62** (fail) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 1704 BY MARINO, MOTION TO ADOPT (#109) — **40–61** (fail) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1069) — **82–11** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryan Fontenot — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-13** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 303. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 82, nays 11, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-23** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-25** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 62, nays 41. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/25/2023.
- **2023-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ab4c35b5-49ff-41e5-b954-42cd3b7dba19`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).