---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME: Prohibits ownership of any animal by a person who has been convicted of cruelty to animals"
description: "CRIME: Prohibits ownership of any animal by a person who has been convicted of cruelty to animals"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 224"
citation: "Louisiana HB 224 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Timothy P. Kerner"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-27"
last_action: "2024-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f61c18bc-6cdb-4e1f-b5c2-32f54ed6dfa9"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245837"
source_hash: "b68da57c832999810e0cd125f12bc82d9ea199f3a340612b1227ca5e60bb92c6"
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 224 (2024) — CRIME: Prohibits ownership of any animal by a person who has been convicted of cruelty to animals

## Version chain

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

1. **HB224 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347483)
2. **HB224 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382290)
3. **HB224 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363909)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1871, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358474)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2649, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363866)
6. **HB224 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379115)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1231) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#488) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Timothy P. Kerner — primary (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-10** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 551. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-21** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2024.
- **2024-04-10** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-09** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f61c18bc-6cdb-4e1f-b5c2-32f54ed6dfa9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).