republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/hb-523.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "JUVENILES/DETENTION FAC: Provides relative to juvenile detention facilities"
description: "JUVENILES/DETENTION FAC: Provides relative to juvenile detention facilities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 523"
citation: "Louisiana HB 523 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeremy LaCombe"]
version_count: 14
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba879398-0def-4a3c-86d8-3a65bbb87c09"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244497"
source_hash: "7b778fa017cbb41154bc121add1c55715c1c9f6a471480cefcf3b2edcef9b800"
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 523 (2023) — JUVENILES/DETENTION FAC: Provides relative to juvenile detention facilities

## Version chain

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

1. **HB523 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309591)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #3783, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327412)
3. **HB523 Act 445** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1333599)
4. **HB523 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318271)
5. **HB523 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322286)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1844, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315896)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1847, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315942)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #2151, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317839)
9. **House Committee Amendment, #2218, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318131)
10. **House Floor Amendment, #2794, LaCombe, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321409)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2067, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324786)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2096, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324976)
13. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2246, Smith, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326084)
14. **HB523 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331981)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#404) — **89–9** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1209) — **88–0** (pass) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#799) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#530) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT (#1028) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jeremy LaCombe — primary (person)
- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
- John Stefanski — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-28** Effective date: See Act.
- **2023-06-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 445. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-12** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/9/2023.
- **2023-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 88, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2023-06-08** Rules suspended.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee report received.
- **2023-06-06** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2023-06-05** House conferees appointed: LaCombe, Marino, and Stefanski.
- **2023-06-02** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2023-06-02** Senate conference committee members appointed: Smith, Henry, and Bouie.
- **2023-05-31** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2023-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2023-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/2023.
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-29** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 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** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-23** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-17** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 9. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-15** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/2023.
- **2023-05-11** Notice given.
- **2023-05-11** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **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 (8-4). `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.
- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ba879398-0def-4a3c-86d8-3a65bbb87c09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).