PROBATION: Provides relative to the suspension or deferral of sentence and probation in felony cases (EN DECREASE GF EX See Note)
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2021
Committee Review
May 2021
House Passage
May 2021
Senate Passage
May 2021
Signed into Law
Jun 2021
Introduced Mar 8, 2021
Signed Jun 4, 2021
Floor votes · Senate May 26, 2021 · House May 4, 2021
How they voted
25–0
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 28
May 26, 2021
D
Democratic10
90% Yea
R
Republican18
88% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
20
Key actions
5
Committee
6
Amendments
1
Jun 4, 2021
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 61.
lower
May 26, 2021
Introduced
Received from the Senate without amendments.
lower
May 26, 2021
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 19, 2021
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 18, 2021
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
May 6, 2021
Committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.
upper
May 4, 2021
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 27, 2021
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (12-0).
lower
Apr 12, 2021
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
lower
Mar 9, 2021
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
lower
1 primary · 3 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Joseph A. Marino III
IIndependent
Co
Denise Marcelle
DDemocratic
Co
FD
Frederick Douglass Jones
DDemocratic
Co
Mandie Landry
DDemocratic
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