---
type: "Bill"
title: "THEFT: Provides relative to coordinated retail robbery offenses. (8/1/24)"
description: "THEFT: Provides relative to coordinated retail robbery offenses. (8/1/24)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 34"
citation: "Louisiana SB 34 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Hensgens"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-26"
last_action: "2024-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/131997b7-52cb-4013-a377-a1e2821ef87f"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245786"
source_hash: "a1643e52a9f47a20a431a8b73cdeec4562dc2f520235b6aed16bb8bf057041c3"
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 34 (2024) — THEFT: Provides relative to coordinated retail robbery offenses. (8/1/24)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB34 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346801)
2. **SB34 Act 119** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378102)
3. **SB34 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354013)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #607, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353331)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #629, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353694)
6. **SB34 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374636)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1036) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#21) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bob Hensgens — primary (person)
- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
- Caleb Kleinpeter — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-22** Effective date 8/1/2024.
- **2024-05-22** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 119. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-15** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-15** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-14** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-14** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2024.
- **2024-04-29** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-24** Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-20** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-19** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-18** Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-03-13** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-12** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** 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/131997b7-52cb-4013-a377-a1e2821ef87f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).