---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/VICTIMS: Provides relative to rights of victims of criminal offenses (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)"
description: "CRIMINAL/VICTIMS: Provides relative to rights of victims of criminal offenses (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 313"
citation: "Louisiana HB 313 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas Pressly"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-02"
last_action: "2022-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e0b3fd12-065b-4ed9-80a9-a87eb4b76d4b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241939"
source_hash: "b2fa71bc777860f360a564c4d95092228b9531a209f80395e3fa8069f66cadd2"
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 313 (2022) — CRIMINAL/VICTIMS: Provides relative to rights of victims of criminal offenses (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB313 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1253764)
2. **HB313 Act 207** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286771)
3. **HB313 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1271719)
4. **HB313 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1275202)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2752, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1270476)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2913, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1271602)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2977, Pressly, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1272018)
8. **HB313 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283005)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#814) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#574) — **90–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Thomas Pressly — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-31** Effective date: See Act.
- **2022-05-31** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 207. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-26** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-25** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-24** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-24** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-19** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-18** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-17** Reported favorably.
- **2022-05-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-03** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-05-02** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-02** Called from the calendar.
- **2022-05-02** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2022-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/02/2022.
- **2022-04-21** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-20** Reported with amendments (9-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e0b3fd12-065b-4ed9-80a9-a87eb4b76d4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).