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+type: "Bill"
+title: "JUVENILES: Eliminates the statute of limitations to prosecute the crime of molestation of a juvenile"
+description: "JUVENILES: Eliminates the statute of limitations to prosecute the crime of molestation of a juvenile"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 453"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 453 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Timothy P. Kerner"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-02-29"
+last_action: "2024-06-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f28fc359-d3a2-4baa-b235-c40f29a0bf37"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246156"
+source_hash: "877e15646dd492a04feba5d1ec1027bc027520b74f638db9f67bd7b1047a8438"
+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 453 (2024) — JUVENILES: Eliminates the statute of limitations to prosecute the crime of molestation of a juvenile
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB453 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350826)
+2. **HB453 Act 698** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382719)
+3. **HB453 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374190)
+4. **HB453 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381091)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1124) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1395) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Timothy P. Kerner — primary (person)
+- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Brach Myers — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
+- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Jacob Braud — cosponsor (person)
+- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
+- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
+- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
+- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 698. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-31** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-31** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-05-31** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
+- **2024-05-30** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
+- **2024-05-30** Rules suspended.
+- **2024-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-29** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-05-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-20** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-05-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-05-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2024.
+- **2024-05-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-14** Reported favorably (7-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-29** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f28fc359-d3a2-4baa-b235-c40f29a0bf37`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+