---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/VICTIMS: Provides relative to victim notification (EN +$50,000 GF EX See Note)"
description: "CRIMINAL/VICTIMS: Provides relative to victim notification (EN +$50,000 GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 265"
citation: "Louisiana HB 265 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debbie Villio"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-28"
last_action: "2022-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/080823a8-90d6-49da-a9cf-87c443da50e5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241863"
source_hash: "6eb175fd375161125818e112000f6e7062ae1e8e3faac6b22c8d211a8cf097b1"
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 265 (2022) — CRIMINAL/VICTIMS: Provides relative to victim notification (EN +$50,000 GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB265 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1252381)
2. **HB265 Act 140** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286069)
3. **HB265 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1260202)
4. **HB265 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1262006)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1125, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259059)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1334, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259876)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1357, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1260174)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #1536, Villio, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261455)
9. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #742, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1260427)
10. **HB265 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1279839)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#53) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#631) — **30–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Debbie Villio — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-25** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 140. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-19** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-18** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-17** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-17** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-16** Read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-12** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-11** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-10** Reported favorably.
- **2022-03-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-28** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-03-23** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-03-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/23/2022.
- **2022-03-21** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-17** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/080823a8-90d6-49da-a9cf-87c443da50e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).