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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CRIME/SEX OFFENSES: Provides relative to the definition of \"commercial sexual activity\" within the crime of trafficking of children for sexual purposes"
+description: "CRIME/SEX OFFENSES: Provides relative to the definition of \"commercial sexual activity\" within the crime of trafficking of children for sexual purposes"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 779"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 779 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Delisha Boyd"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-03-26"
+last_action: "2024-06-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/818258ce-52fa-4bbf-87b4-f8fcf0a95fe0"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246888"
+source_hash: "7ebccb956c6d1dbcb6cf4b75d0ab9ea36b4973f6fc1690ac9aaf29178cb0fae7"
+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 779 (2024) — CRIME/SEX OFFENSES: Provides relative to the definition of "commercial sexual activity" within the crime of trafficking of children for sexual purposes
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB779 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358008)
+2. **HB779 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382311)
+3. **HB779 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362364)
+4. **HB779 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379107)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#403) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1234) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Delisha Boyd — primary (person)
+- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Shaun Mena — cosponsor (person)
+- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
+- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-06-10** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
+- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 570. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-05-21** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-04-10** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-04-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/2024.
+- **2024-04-08** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-04** Reported favorably (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-27** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-26** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/818258ce-52fa-4bbf-87b4-f8fcf0a95fe0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+