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type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: Repeals provisions relative to police officers making arrests for certain misdemeanors and felonies. (8/1/23) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)"
description: "CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: Repeals provisions relative to police officers making arrests for certain misdemeanors and felonies. (8/1/23) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 54"
citation: "Louisiana SB 54 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jay Morris"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-27"
last_action: "2023-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/496be1e0-d94d-411c-a979-9976082680e3"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244089"
source_hash: "8883682a3705b8c290261de1a21a46fbf6bf5d4f1d5da67bd3786120f7011e42"
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 SB 54 (2023) — CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: Repeals provisions relative to police officers making arrests for certain misdemeanors and felonies. (8/1/23) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SB54 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1305943)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #3506, Marino, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325438)
3. **SB54 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1333283)
4. **SB54 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312852)
5. **SB54 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315766)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #792, Morris, Jay, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314847)
7. **SB54 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330986)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#994) — **5744** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#920) — **345** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#93) — **296** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Jay Morris — primary (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-06-28** Effective date 8/1/2023.
- **2023-06-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 438. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 34 yeas and 5 nays.
- **2023-06-06** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2023-06-06** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2023-06-06** Rules suspended.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 57, nays 44. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-06-05** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-06-05** Read by title, amended, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-06-01** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
- **2023-05-25** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-24** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-23** Reported favorably (9-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-27** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-04-25** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 6 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-04-19** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-04-18** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `filing, referral-committee`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/496be1e0-d94d-411c-a979-9976082680e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).