---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to time limitations for instituting prosecution for crimes with victims with infirmities"
description: "CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to time limitations for instituting prosecution for crimes with victims with infirmities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 251"
citation: "Louisiana HB 251 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frederick D. Jones"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2021-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44525d32-d4c1-4cb6-901a-adda67153196"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240096"
source_hash: "b6340c5ff5751aaf4a88717d387849155b3959195fe8973db66154c9c8e9c474"
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 251 (2021) — CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to time limitations for instituting prosecution for crimes with victims with infirmities

## Version chain

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

1. **HB251 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1208043)
2. **HB251 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231955)
3. **HB251 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216390)
4. **HB251 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218532)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1668, Jones, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217184)
6. **HB251 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228941)

## Votes

- CO-AUTHORS (#506) — **7–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#505) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#105) — **89–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Frederick D. Jones — primary (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 72. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/28/2021.
- **2021-05-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-26** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-18** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-29** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-28** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2021.
- **2021-04-26** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-22** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/44525d32-d4c1-4cb6-901a-adda67153196`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).