---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME: Provides for the crime of staging of a motor vehicle collision (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "CRIME: Provides for the crime of staging of a motor vehicle collision (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 15"
citation: "Louisiana HB 15 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sherman Q. Mack"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-18"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d261b0b9-8928-4a2a-aba8-0f99fd1a54ff"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239779"
source_hash: "5772cce518d41ae9c0f76091e27fc76568f1bbcd343edd9be4123d462d1c6821"
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 15 (2021) — CRIME: Provides for the crime of staging of a motor vehicle collision (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB15 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1199922)
2. **HB15 Act 248** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235430)
3. **HB15 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221215)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1979, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219247)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2323, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221144)
6. **HB15 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231270)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#696) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#399) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sherman Q. Mack — primary (person)
- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-14** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 248. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/3/2021.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-25** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-12** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-12** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2021.
- **2021-05-06** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-05** Reported with amendments (9-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-19** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/19/2021.
- **2021-02-18** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-18** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d261b0b9-8928-4a2a-aba8-0f99fd1a54ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).