republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-445.md

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Bill	BAIL: Provides relative to bond forfeiture	BAIL: Provides relative to bond forfeiture	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 445	Louisiana HB 445 (2024)	bill		enacted	Bryan Fontenot	6	19	2	2024-02-29	2024-05-23	openstates	ocd-bill/5f0b9fe6-db8f-4698-a2b9-b19a1ebb70a8	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246148	54881d93e1fcc5fd26ae482bd608d3443a71cd3445cb755e419405eaa83dc78f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 445 (2024) — BAIL: Provides relative to bond forfeiture

Version chain

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

1. HB445 Original (filed) — source
2. HB445 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB445 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #1879, ACRJ, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1935, ACRJ, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. HB445 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#949) — 34–5 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#248) — 103–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bryan Fontenot — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-23 Effective date: 08/01/2024.
• 2024-05-23 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 221. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-21 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-20 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-05-20 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-20 Received from the Senate without amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-16 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 5 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-13 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-08 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-05-07 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-09 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-08 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-04-04 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-04-03 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/2024.
• 2024-04-02 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-03-27 Reported with amendments (10-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5f0b9fe6-db8f-4698-a2b9-b19a1ebb70a8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).