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type: "Bill"
title: "CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES: Provides relative to certain activities regarding contraband (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)"
description: "CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES: Provides relative to certain activities regarding contraband (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 237"
citation: "Louisiana HB 237 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodney Schamerhorn"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-27"
last_action: "2023-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c0a7db9-ff58-4f48-939f-9985e78c194a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244109"
source_hash: "bee7d5c6e61113befa523df5e3d2d09dc641bea81e844c5498ce701d3a9b6f06"
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 237 (2023) — CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES: Provides relative to certain activities regarding contraband (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB237 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1306117)
2. **HB237 Act 302** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332455)
3. **HB237 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318290)
4. **HB237 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321625)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2174, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317946)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2243, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318217)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2823, Villio, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321580)
8. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2255, Smith, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326256)
9. **HB237 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330955)
## Votes
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1064) — **971** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#761) — **370** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#351) — **910** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Rodney Schamerhorn — primary (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (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. 302. `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 97, nays 1, 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`
- **2023-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-11** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2023.
- **2023-05-03** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-02** Reported with amendments (7-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-27** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8c0a7db9-ff58-4f48-939f-9985e78c194a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).