---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME: Provides relative to penalties for unlawful use of an unmanned aircraft system (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
description: "CRIME: Provides relative to penalties for unlawful use of an unmanned aircraft system (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 265"
citation: "Louisiana HB 265 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ken Brass"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a7a1f70-8023-4f98-905b-e4b630a5a76c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240120"
source_hash: "64c4a9211f1699734eae864e9de7f1462fd87eef9c9d451c34f12f34aec10610"
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 265 (2021) — CRIME: Provides relative to penalties for unlawful use of an unmanned aircraft system (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB265 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1208397)
2. **HB265 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235455)
3. **HB265 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221444)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2251, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220736)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2364, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221379)
6. **HB265 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232829)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#848) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#404) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ken Brass — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-14** Effective date: 06/14/2021.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 265. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** 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** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. 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** 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 98, 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`
- **2021-04-02** 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/3a7a1f70-8023-4f98-905b-e4b630a5a76c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).