republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024s2/sb-8.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	PUBLIC DEFENDER: To create the office of state public defender and transfer authority from the Louisiana Public Defender Board. (gov sig) (Item #7) (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)	PUBLIC DEFENDER: To create the office of state public defender and transfer authority from the Louisiana Public Defender Board. (gov sig) (Item #7) (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024s2	SB 8	Louisiana SB 8 (2024s2)	bill		enacted	Mike Reese	25	19	9	2024-02-09	2024-03-20	openstates	ocd-bill/1aa9cb93-ad2c-473e-927a-ad506944e425	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245612	7dbbde158e1d239a84f60cc3cab4877a0fd618ff4ade0d7f24170ce79569b7ad	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 8 (2024s2) — PUBLIC DEFENDER: To create the office of state public defender and transfer authority from the Louisiana Public Defender Board. (gov sig) (Item #7) (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)

Version chain

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

1. SB8 Original (filed) — source
2. House Committee Amendment, #172, ACRJ, Draft (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Amendment, #176, ACRJ, Draft (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #179, ACRJ, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
5. House Floor Amendment, #226, Villio, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. House Floor Amendment, #227, Bryant, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #228, Villio, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Amendment, #229, Bryant, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
9. House Floor Amendment, #231, Landry, Mandie, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
10. House Floor Amendment, #232, Larvadain, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
11. House Floor Amendment, #233, Marcelle, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
12. House Floor Amendment, #234, Jordan, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
13. House Floor Amendment, #237, Bacala, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
14. House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #314, BUREAU, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
15. SB8 Act 22 (committee substitute) — source
16. SB8 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
17. SB8 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
18. Senate Committee Amendment, #100, JUDB, Draft (committee substitute) — source
19. Senate Committee Amendment, #41, JUDB, Draft (committee substitute) — source
20. Senate Committee Amendment, #92, JUDB, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
21. Senate Committee Amendment, #95, JUDB, Draft (committee substitute) — source
22. Senate Floor Amendment, #152, Reese, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
23. Senate Floor Bureau Note, #176, Reese, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
24. Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #130, Miller, G., Adopted (committee substitute) — source
25. SB8 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AMENDMENT # 234 BY JORDAN, MOTION TO ADOPT (#89) — 33–69 (fail) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#90) — 71–31 (pass) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 229 BY BRYANT, MOTION TO ADOPT (#86) — 33–67 (fail) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#34) — 27–12 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR (#77) — 28–11 (pass) · upper
• AMENDMENT # 227 BY BRYANT, MOTION TO ADOPT (#84) — 33–67 (fail) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 231 BY LANDRY, M., MOTION TO ADOPT (#88) — 33–68 (fail) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 233 BY MARCELLE, MOTION TO ADOPT (#85) — 31–69 (fail) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 232 BY LARVADAIN, MOTION TO ADOPT (#87) — 31–70 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Mike Reese — primary (person)
• Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-03-20 Effective date 3/20/2024.
• 2024-03-20 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 22. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-02-29 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 3/1/2024. executive-receipt
• 2024-03-01 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2024-02-29 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate on 3/1/2024. enrolled
• 2024-02-29 Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 28 yeas and 11 nays.
• 2024-02-29 Received from the House with amendments. receipt
• 2024-02-29 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 71, nays 31. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-02-28 Scheduled for floor debate on 02/29/2024.
• 2024-02-28 Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2024-02-27 Reported with amendments (9-4). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-23 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2024-02-22 Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 12 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-02-22 Senate floor amendments read and adopted; read by title and returned to its regular order on third reading and final passage.
• 2024-02-20 Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-19 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. referral-committee
• 2024-02-09 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1aa9cb93-ad2c-473e-927a-ad506944e425. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).