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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "JUVENILES: Provides relative to the discretion of the district attorney to prosecute a juvenile as an adult for certain offenses"
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description: "JUVENILES: Provides relative to the discretion of the district attorney to prosecute a juvenile as an adult for certain offenses"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
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legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
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session: "2023"
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identifier: "HB 54"
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citation: "Louisiana HB 54 (2023)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Laurie Schlegel"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 20
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2023-02-28"
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last_action: "2023-06-26"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d0a6b3e8-2146-420a-9dbf-0b3adba05ab8"
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source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243884"
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source_hash: "3849f48d4bfef466366587108d63a1929cbf91966b569b08a067998a9cc867ab"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
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---
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# Louisiana HB 54 (2023) — JUVENILES: Provides relative to the discretion of the district attorney to prosecute a juvenile as an adult for certain offenses
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB54 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1301235)
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2. **HB54 Act 418** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1333096)
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3. **HB54 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315678)
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4. **HB54 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329643)
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## Votes
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#757) — **27–9** (pass) · upper
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#181) — **78–15** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Laurie Schlegel — primary (person)
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- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-06-26** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
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- **2023-06-26** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 418. `became-law, executive-signature`
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- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
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- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
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- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
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- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
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- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
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- **2023-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
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- **2023-05-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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- **2023-05-23** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-05-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2023-05-02** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
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- **2023-05-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 78, nays 15. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
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- **2023-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/02/2023.
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- **2023-04-26** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
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- **2023-04-25** Reported favorably (12-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/3/2023.
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- **2023-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d0a6b3e8-2146-420a-9dbf-0b3adba05ab8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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