---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME/SEX OFFENSES: Provides relative to certain sex offenses against minors"
description: "CRIME/SEX OFFENSES: Provides relative to certain sex offenses against minors"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 222"
citation: "Louisiana HB 222 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Stefanski"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-25"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39254210-5183-4842-9bd7-e00f82ef8c32"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240064"
source_hash: "578c2086b8105505ea501c22fbabc8eefe5debaf6ed2de0e833f112bf2738814"
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 222 (2021) — CRIME/SEX OFFENSES: Provides relative to certain sex offenses against minors

## Version chain

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

1. **HB222 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1207003)
2. **HB222 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235121)
3. **HB222 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221322)
4. **HB222 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224172)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1912, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218885)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2362, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221279)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1737, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221915)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2521, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227467)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2525, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227473)
10. **HB222 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232647)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#402) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1015) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#703) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- John Stefanski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 186. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/07/2021.
- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-06-02** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 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** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-25** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-05-17** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-13** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-12** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, 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`
- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
- **2021-03-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/39254210-5183-4842-9bd7-e00f82ef8c32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).