---
type: "Bill"
title: "THEFT: Creates the crime of theft of critical infrastructure. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
description: "THEFT: Creates the crime of theft of critical infrastructure. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 22"
citation: "Louisiana SB 22 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Valarie Hodges"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-28"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b95fc41-dfb7-4c6a-acf0-5d6660e83f54"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248040"
source_hash: "46e4ca0c6e0683b237509eac98f3337ed0bec23a141595189a717c36ef21f91a"
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 22 (2025) — THEFT: Creates the crime of theft of critical infrastructure. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB22 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1399526)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2834, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414537)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2895, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414926)
4. **SB22 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422208)
5. **SB22 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407173)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #653, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406673)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #674, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406808)
8. **SB22 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419059)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#63) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#630) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#407) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Valarie Hodges — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 26. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/30/2025. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-05-27** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/2025.
- **2025-05-19** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-14** Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-29** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-28** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-04-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-22** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-28** 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/5b95fc41-dfb7-4c6a-acf0-5d6660e83f54`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).