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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Creates the crime of child grooming. (8/1/25)"
+description: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Creates the crime of child grooming. (8/1/25)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 58"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 58 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Patrick Connick"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-04-02"
+last_action: "2025-06-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1cfd7278-fb05-4cdc-95f2-c7bb9a434258"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248214"
+source_hash: "08e3fb082f6bc38b1392c71f36b23511265f5d4959431ecbbd4f264d849ad0b1"
+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 SB 58 (2025) — CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Creates the crime of child grooming. (8/1/25)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB58 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1401943)
+2. **House Committee Amendment, #3276, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416871)
+3. **House Committee Amendment, #3301, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417057)
+4. **SB58 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424918)
+5. **SB58 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412209)
+6. **SB58 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413911)
+7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1296, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411616)
+8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #998, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409552)
+9. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1594, Connick, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413756)
+10. **SB58 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421323)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCUR (#628) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- CO-AUTHORS (#216) — **17–0** (fail) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#215) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#756) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Patrick Connick — primary (person)
+- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
+- Annie Spell — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
+- Brach Myers — cosponsor (person)
+- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
+- Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
+- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
+- Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
+- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
+- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
+- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-08** Effective date 8/1/2025.
+- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 97. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/5/2025. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2025-06-04** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-03** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2025-06-02** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-06-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-05-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/2025.
+- **2025-05-27** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2025-05-21** Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-13** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2025-05-12** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-05-08** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2025-05-07** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-02** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1cfd7278-fb05-4cdc-95f2-c7bb9a434258`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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