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Bill	CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to changes for post conviction relief procedures (Item #17) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)	CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to changes for post conviction relief procedures (Item #17) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024s2	HB 4	Louisiana HB 4 (2024s2)	bill		enacted	Julie Emerson	14	26	5	2024-02-08	2024-03-05	openstates	ocd-bill/9ff88677-5fc4-4107-a52f-eb8e559c3fd1	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245596	f75b4e2ed1adc3b121b70355bd2a0c6c573d7e613b50f216f65ab1ee5beba42b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 4 (2024s2) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to changes for post conviction relief procedures (Item #17) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB4 Original (filed) — source
2. HB4 Act 10 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB4 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB4 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #73, ACRJ, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #74, ACRJ, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #111, Emerson, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Committee Amendment, #248, JUDB, Draft (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #257, JUDB, Draft (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Committee Amendment, #260, JUDB, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Floor Amendment, #353, McMath, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. Senate Floor Amendment, #361, McMath, Withdrawn (committee substitute) — source
13. Senate Floor Amendment, #362, McMath, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
14. HB4 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#95) — 73–27 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#70) — 28–11 (pass) · upper
• CRIMINAL JUSTICE (#7) — 72–29 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#32) — 73–31 (pass) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 353 BY MCMATH, HB 4 BY EMERSON (#69) — 26–12 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Julie Emerson — primary (person)
• Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-03-05 Effective date: 08/1/2024.
• 2024-03-05 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 10. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-02-29 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-02-29 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-02-29 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-02-29 Read by title, roll called, yeas 73, nays 27, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2024-02-29 Rules suspended.
• 2024-02-29 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2024-02-29 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 11 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-02-29 Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
• 2024-02-28 Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
• 2024-02-27 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-02-27 Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-26 Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
• 2024-02-26 Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
• 2024-02-26 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-25 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-02-22 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 73, nays 31. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-02-21 Scheduled for floor debate on 02/22/2024.
• 2024-02-21 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-02-20 Reported with amendments (8-6). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-19 Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2024-02-09 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/9/2024.
• 2024-02-08 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2024-02-08 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9ff88677-5fc4-4107-a52f-eb8e559c3fd1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).