LA HB23 | 2021 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on June 4 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-06-04 - Effective date: 08/01/2021.
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on June 4 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-06-04 - Effective date: 08/01/2021.
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]
Summary
Repeals crimes relative to defamation
Title
Repeals crimes relative to defamation
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2021-05-26 - Senate - Senate Vote on HB 23 FINAL PASSAGE (#491) (Y: 35 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2021-04-27 - House - House Vote on HB 23 FINAL PASSAGE (#80) (Y: 93 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 10) [PASS]
2021-04-27 - House - House Vote on HB 23 FINAL PASSAGE (#80) (Y: 93 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 10) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-04 | House | Effective date: 08/01/2021. |
| 2021-06-04 | House | Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 60. |
| 2021-06-02 | House | Sent to the Governor for executive approval. |
| 2021-06-01 | Senate | Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/28/2021. |
| 2021-05-27 | House | Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. |
| 2021-05-26 | House | Received from the Senate without amendments. |
| 2021-05-26 | Senate | Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. |
| 2021-05-20 | Senate | Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. |
| 2021-05-19 | Senate | Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. |
| 2021-05-18 | Senate | Reported favorably. |
| 2021-04-28 | Senate | Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. |
| 2021-04-27 | Senate | Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. |
| 2021-04-27 | House | Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. |
| 2021-04-26 | House | Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2021. |
| 2021-04-26 | House | Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. |
| 2021-04-22 | House | Reported favorably (10-0). |
| 2021-04-12 | House | Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. |
| 2021-02-26 | House | First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/26/2021. |
| 2021-02-22 | House | Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. |
| 2021-02-22 | House | Prefiled. |
