---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/HABIT OFFENDERS: Provides relative to the Habitual Offender Law (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "CRIMINAL/HABIT OFFENDERS: Provides relative to the Habitual Offender Law (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 146"
citation: "Louisiana HB 146 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeffery \"Jeff\" Wiley"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-31"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfb983fc-6f05-4726-840f-b184a68e5b0b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248056"
source_hash: "e3ccfd4e969586cc372d865dce7c5390b11ee4f9e197f2d55a5e6e14e4f5523c"
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 146 (2025) — CRIMINAL/HABIT OFFENDERS: Provides relative to the Habitual Offender Law (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB146 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400225)
2. **HB146 Act 246** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425554)
3. **HB146 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409621)
4. **HB146 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423153)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#238) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#765) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 246. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-05-29** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-05-29** Rules suspended.
- **2025-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-21** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended.
- **2025-05-20** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-06** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2025.
- **2025-04-30** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Reported favorably (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dfb983fc-6f05-4726-840f-b184a68e5b0b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).