---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/VICTIMS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Protective Order Registry"
description: "CRIMINAL/VICTIMS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Protective Order Registry"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 557"
citation: "Louisiana HB 557 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dixon McMakin"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6874422b-5e36-46c3-9dae-2c367324484f"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246315"
source_hash: "e5898a67bd2ed2dc47f5386385f06feb7fbbe5b1c17ee6e6b234f8d23552d039"
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 557 (2024) — CRIMINAL/VICTIMS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Protective Order Registry

## Version chain

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

1. **HB557 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351675)
2. **HB557 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379557)
3. **HB557 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364756)
4. **HB557 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374824)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#717) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#583) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dixon McMakin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-23** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 225. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-15** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-14** 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`
- **2024-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-08** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-07** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-17** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/17/2024.
- **2024-04-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-11** Reported favorably (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6874422b-5e36-46c3-9dae-2c367324484f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).