--- type: "Bill" title: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Creates the crime of child grooming. (8/1/25)" description: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Creates the crime of child grooming. (8/1/25)" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2025" identifier: "SB 58" citation: "Louisiana SB 58 (2025)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Patrick Connick"] version_count: 10 action_count: 19 vote_count: 4 first_action: "2025-04-02" last_action: "2025-06-08" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1cfd7278-fb05-4cdc-95f2-c7bb9a434258" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248214" source_hash: "08e3fb082f6bc38b1392c71f36b23511265f5d4959431ecbbd4f264d849ad0b1" 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 58 (2025) — CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Creates the crime of child grooming. (8/1/25) ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **SB58 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1401943) 2. **House Committee Amendment, #3276, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416871) 3. **House Committee Amendment, #3301, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417057) 4. **SB58 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424918) 5. **SB58 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412209) 6. **SB58 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413911) 7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1296, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411616) 8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #998, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409552) 9. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1594, Connick, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413756) 10. **SB58 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421323) ## Votes - CONCUR (#628) — **37–0** (pass) · upper - CO-AUTHORS (#216) — **17–0** (fail) · upper - FINAL PASSAGE (#215) — **39–0** (pass) · upper - FINAL PASSAGE (#756) — **98–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Patrick Connick — primary (person) - Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person) - Annie Spell — cosponsor (person) - Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person) - Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person) - Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person) - Brach Myers — cosponsor (person) - Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person) - Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person) - Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person) - Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person) - Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person) - Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person) - Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person) - Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person) - Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person) - Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person) - Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person) - Gary Carter — cosponsor (person) - Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person) - Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person) - Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person) - Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person) - Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person) - Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person) - Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person) - John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person) - Joy Walters — cosponsor (person) - Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person) - Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person) - Larry Selders — cosponsor (person) - Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person) - Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person) - Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person) - Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person) - Pat Moore — cosponsor (person) - Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person) - R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person) - Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person) - Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person) - Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person) - Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person) - Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person) - Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person) - Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person) - Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person) - William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-06-08** Effective date 8/1/2025. - **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 97. `became-law, executive-signature` - **2025-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/5/2025. `executive-receipt` - **2025-06-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House. - **2025-06-04** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled` - **2025-06-03** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays. - **2025-06-02** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt` - **2025-06-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2025-05-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/2025. - **2025-05-27** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2025-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. - **2025-05-21** Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-05-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee` - **2025-05-13** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules. - **2025-05-12** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2025-05-08** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage. - **2025-05-07** 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` - **2025-04-02** 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/1cfd7278-fb05-4cdc-95f2-c7bb9a434258`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).