Legislation: batch B — IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-261.md

@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "CRIME: Provides relative to unlawful use of an unmanned aircraft system (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
+description: "CRIME: Provides relative to unlawful use of an unmanned aircraft system (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 261"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 261 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jay Galle"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-04-01"
+last_action: "2025-06-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88169843-c7d8-4c37-8025-ff581e9442b7"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248192"
+source_hash: "ba68d8e8c3707234624c5341683681a70447f09f50ae2aea83c2299f0932b87d"
+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 261 (2025) — CRIME: Provides relative to unlawful use of an unmanned aircraft system (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB261 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1401331)
+2. **HB261 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425158)
+3. **HB261 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412416)
+4. **HB261 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414489)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1252, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411402)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #2401, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412380)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #2555, Galle, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413168)
+8. **HB261 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420841)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#581) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#368) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jay Galle — primary (person)
+- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
+- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
+- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
+- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
+- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
+- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-08** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
+- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 170. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2025-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2025-05-28** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-14** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2025-05-13** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-05-12** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2025.
+- **2025-05-08** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-07** Reported with amendments (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/88169843-c7d8-4c37-8025-ff581e9442b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+