---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME: Provides relative to penalties for unlawful use of an unmanned aircraft system"
description: "CRIME: Provides relative to penalties for unlawful use of an unmanned aircraft system"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 167"
citation: "Louisiana HB 167 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ken Brass"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-26"
last_action: "2024-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6def4cc2-33ca-4888-a9ed-3045a493f1b5"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245741"
source_hash: "5b3c0808878ceb87e10e2cb3da7c620ceb731c90ffcbc261f59ab96240d96dd2"
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 167 (2024) — CRIME: Provides relative to penalties for unlawful use of an unmanned aircraft system

## Version chain

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

1. **HB167 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346583)
2. **HB167 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372983)
3. **HB167 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356680)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1540, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356574)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1564, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356663)
6. **HB167 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370263)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#108) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#435) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ken Brass — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-08** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 19. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-04-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-04-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-04-29** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-15** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-09** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-03-26** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/26/2024.
- **2024-03-25** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-21** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6def4cc2-33ca-4888-a9ed-3045a493f1b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).