--- type: "Bill" title: "CRIME/HOMICIDE: Provides relative to homicide (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)" description: "CRIME/HOMICIDE: Provides relative to homicide (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2025" identifier: "HB 260" citation: "Louisiana HB 260 (2025)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Debbie Villio"] version_count: 9 action_count: 24 vote_count: 2 first_action: "2025-04-01" last_action: "2025-06-08" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/079f45aa-8716-4090-8c15-b3fe38dd69e3" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248191" source_hash: "fa09cf55f35e3be45555f8893ddbd24166efeb0261f6b4e7f8df2e61ce5e8ff4" 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 260 (2025) — CRIME/HOMICIDE: Provides relative to homicide (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX) ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB260 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1401330) 2. **HB260 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425091) 3. **HB260 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409764) 4. **HB260 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413050) 5. **House Committee Amendment, #1857, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409102) 6. **House Committee Amendment, #1954, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409748) 7. **House Floor Amendment, #2178, Villio, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410996) 8. **House Floor Amendment, #2423, Boyer, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412318) 9. **HB260 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419643) ## Votes - FINAL PASSAGE (#469) — **37–0** (pass) · upper - FINAL PASSAGE (#313) — **95–1** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Debbie Villio — primary (person) - Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person) - Annie Spell — cosponsor (person) - Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person) - Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person) - Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person) - Beth Billings — cosponsor (person) - Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person) - Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person) - Chance Henry — cosponsor (person) - Charles Owen — cosponsor (person) - Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person) - Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person) - Dennis Bamburg Jr. — cosponsor (person) - Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person) - Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person) - Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person) - Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person) - Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person) - Jacob Braud — cosponsor (person) - Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person) - Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person) - Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person) - Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — cosponsor (person) - Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person) - John Wyble — cosponsor (person) - Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person) - Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person) - Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person) - Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person) - Michael Echols — cosponsor (person) - Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person) - Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person) - Pat Moore — cosponsor (person) - Peter Egan — cosponsor (person) - Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person) - Robert Carter — cosponsor (person) - Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person) - Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person) - Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person) - Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person) - Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person) - Troy Hebert — cosponsor (person) - Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person) - Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person) - Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person) - Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-06-08** Effective date: 06/08/2025. - **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 169. `became-law, executive-signature` - **2025-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt` - **2025-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate. - **2025-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled` - **2025-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt` - **2025-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2025-05-27** 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` - **2025-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee` - **2025-05-12** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1` - **2025-05-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2025-05-08** Called from the calendar. - **2025-05-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2025. - **2025-05-07** Notice given. - **2025-05-07** Read by title, returned to the calendar. - **2025-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/2025. - **2025-04-30** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2025-04-29** Reported with amendments (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/079f45aa-8716-4090-8c15-b3fe38dd69e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).