---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME: Provides relative to criminal blighting of property"
description: "CRIME: Provides relative to criminal blighting of property"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 234"
citation: "Louisiana HB 234 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mandie Landry"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-01"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b5dd5ccc-76ae-4b44-a76f-97f9d0d6b48e"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248161"
source_hash: "dcef869d9f83d9ecd0c43cc894e92b8f851ea61b72af61d5b2b0bb970972c563"
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 234 (2025) — CRIME: Provides relative to criminal blighting of property

## Version chain

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

1. **HB234 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400923)
2. **HB234 Act 255** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425563)
3. **HB234 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409595)
4. **HB234 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423150)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#753) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#241) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mandie Landry — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (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. 255. `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 39 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`
- **2025-05-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-07** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/2025.
- **2025-04-30** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b5dd5ccc-76ae-4b44-a76f-97f9d0d6b48e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).