---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME: Provides a universal definition of \"serious bodily injury\" for purposes of Title 14 of the La. Revised Statutes"
description: "CRIME: Provides a universal definition of \"serious bodily injury\" for purposes of Title 14 of the La. Revised Statutes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 25"
citation: "Louisiana HB 25 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wayne McMahen"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2019-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/636de20d-9524-4bc5-82b6-c941c77e73f7"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235641"
source_hash: "f2fdfbc5a8b9329bbdb4a9cb0b971e0d2a5ca03f0df94b4af83ba19f6c58d10f"
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 25 (2019) — CRIME: Provides a universal definition of "serious bodily injury" for purposes of Title 14 of the La. Revised Statutes

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB25 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1113107)
2. **HB25 Act 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139019)
3. **HB25 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127237)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1297, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125849)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1513, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127083)
6. **HB25 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134300)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#335) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#111) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wayne McMahen — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-05-24** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 2. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-14** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-14** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-09** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-08** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-07** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-01** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-30** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-04-30** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-04-30** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-04-30** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/19.
- **2019-04-25** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-24** Reported with amendments (9-0-1).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/22/2019.
- **2019-02-21** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/636de20d-9524-4bc5-82b6-c941c77e73f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).