---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Provides for surgical castration of persons convicted of certain crimes when the victim is under the age of thirteen. (8/1/24) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
description: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Provides for surgical castration of persons convicted of certain crimes when the victim is under the age of thirteen. (8/1/24) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 371"
citation: "Louisiana SB 371 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Regina Ashford Barrow"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 32
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b0fff9c7-3528-4652-bb14-cfa68aa76672"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246652"
source_hash: "9c75db8a3fe384c1bd788b586e5fbe0b0e1195072f833c21ae7c37b879bb7736"
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 371 (2024) — CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Provides for surgical castration of persons convicted of certain crimes when the victim is under the age of thirteen. (8/1/24) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB371 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352820)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #4280, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380906)
3. **House Floor Amendment, #4803, Boyd, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376000)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #5048, Boyd, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377635)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #5054, Hilferty, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377749)
6. **SB371 Act 651** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382640)
7. **SB371 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358280)
8. **SB371 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368545)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2404, Barrow, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368463)
10. **SB371 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381570)

## Votes

- REJECT (#1202) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1750) — **72–25** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#395) — **29–9** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1324) — **74–24** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1451) — **29–8** (pass) · upper
- APPROPRIATIONS (#1323) — **41–50** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Regina Ashford Barrow — primary (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-11** Effective date 8/1/2024.
- **2024-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 651. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/4/2024. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-06-03** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-06-03** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-06-03** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 72, nays 25. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2024-06-03** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-05-31** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2024.
- **2024-06-02** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 29 yeas and 8 nays.
- **2024-05-31** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2024-05-31** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2024-05-31** House conferees appointed: Boyd, Villio, and Hilferty.
- **2024-05-30** Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments.
- **2024-05-29** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2024-05-29** Senate conference committee members appointed: Barrow, Abraham, and Morris.
- **2024-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-22** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 74, nays 24. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
- **2024-05-21** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-15** Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-25** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-23** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 9 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-22** Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-22** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2024-03-27** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2024-03-26** Reported favorably. `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`
- **2024-03-01** 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/b0fff9c7-3528-4652-bb14-cfa68aa76672`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).