---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME/SEX OFFENSES: Amends terminology regarding pornography involving juveniles"
description: "CRIME/SEX OFFENSES: Amends terminology regarding pornography involving juveniles"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 268"
citation: "Louisiana HB 268 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vanessa Caston LaFleur"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-01"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b9197ab8-7595-47e7-aee0-2b9fe3aa87e8"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248199"
source_hash: "2bfb43fd96d58438e3178043c0c15dec9a93025d86ae4723f97cda91313122ea"
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 268 (2025) — CRIME/SEX OFFENSES: Amends terminology regarding pornography involving juveniles

## Version chain

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

1. **HB268 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1401342)
2. **HB268 Act 261** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425573)
3. **HB268 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412379)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1021, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412357)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1022, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404897)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2238, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417962)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2688, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420818)
8. **HB268 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423417)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#370) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#998) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#695) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Annie Spell — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Rashid Young — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — 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. 261. `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** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-08** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/09/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-14** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-13** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-12** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2025.
- **2025-05-08** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-07** Reported with amendments (9-0). `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/b9197ab8-7595-47e7-aee0-2b9fe3aa87e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).