republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/hb-55.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "CORRECTIONS: Provides relative to mental health treatment of incarcerated people (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "CORRECTIONS: Provides relative to mental health treatment of incarcerated people (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 55"
citation: "Louisiana HB 55 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Selders"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-28"
last_action: "2023-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/803e4662-c997-47ba-a76e-f4153084922c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243885"
source_hash: "f93d7df680c2905f8868f7180efc255841f56fe8930f728649d32c23add2f14b"
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 55 (2023) — CORRECTIONS: Provides relative to mental health treatment of incarcerated people (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB55 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1301237)
2. **HB55 Act 214** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332275)
3. **HB55 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318192)
4. **HB55 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325690)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1112, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311457)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2148, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317832)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2209, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318063)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #3477, Selders, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325287)
9. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1246, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318422)
10. **HB55 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329708)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#645) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#680) — **37–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Larry Selders — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-08** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 214. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-31** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-25** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-24** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-24** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/24/2023.
- **2023-05-22** Notice given.
- **2023-05-22** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2023.
- **2023-05-16** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-16** Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2023-05-03** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **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`
- **2023-03-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/3/2023.
- **2023-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/803e4662-c997-47ba-a76e-f4153084922c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).