---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME: Adds the crime of false imprisonment while armed with a dangerous weapon to the list of crimes of violence"
description: "CRIME: Adds the crime of false imprisonment while armed with a dangerous weapon to the list of crimes of violence"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 583"
citation: "Louisiana HB 583 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Fontenot"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11ba09b4-59c2-4e9b-8c8c-f43b17a67cd9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240552"
source_hash: "99b14970a0b48c982c354d19ed3fc48e2c09df43b52df1467aee36cece6b4e43"
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 583 (2021) — CRIME: Adds the crime of false imprisonment while armed with a dangerous weapon to the list of crimes of violence

## Version chain

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

1. **HB583 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212080)
2. **HB583 Act 484** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1236589)
3. **HB583 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221048)
4. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3531, Jackson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232266)
5. **HB583 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233667)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1129) — **79–21** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#418) — **75–24** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#865) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#866) — **5–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bryan Fontenot — primary (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-29** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-29** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 484. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 79, nays 21, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-07** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 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.
- **2021-05-17** 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, roll called on final passage, yeas 75, nays 24. 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-05** Reported favorably (8-0).
- **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.
- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/11ba09b4-59c2-4e9b-8c8c-f43b17a67cd9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).