---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Provides relative to the crime of assault by drive-by shooting. (8/1/23)"
description: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Provides relative to the crime of assault by drive-by shooting. (8/1/23)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 117"
citation: "Louisiana SB 117 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jimmy Harris"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-30"
last_action: "2023-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fcf64617-7e24-4731-adf4-f63d14822405"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244345"
source_hash: "4cad44e27378149ffb8ff9b76d91df2c5771472152749d12eb5d6ed230ed7478"
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 SB 117 (2023) — CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Provides relative to the crime of assault by drive-by shooting. (8/1/23)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB117 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308641)
2. **SB117 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332320)
3. **SB117 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312847)
4. **SB117 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330090)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#953) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#105) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jimmy Harris — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-09** Effective date 8/1/2023.
- **2023-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 243. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-06** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
- **2023-05-30** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-24** Reported favorably (10-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-01** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-27** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-04-26** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-04-19** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-04-18** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fcf64617-7e24-4731-adf4-f63d14822405`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).