---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/PENALTIES: Provides relative to the penalties for the crime of simple obstruction of a highway of commerce (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)"
description: "CRIMINAL/PENALTIES: Provides relative to the penalties for the crime of simple obstruction of a highway of commerce (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 127"
citation: "Louisiana HB 127 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Bayham"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-22"
last_action: "2024-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8c7e08b-41d6-4f56-8314-5a57c2de4dee"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245691"
source_hash: "fde48dbc5514eac6b855f4786cbd289e8ebc35abec68a2b1a0f62d81c69737f8"
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 127 (2024) — CRIMINAL/PENALTIES: Provides relative to the penalties for the crime of simple obstruction of a highway of commerce (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB127 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345239)
2. **HB127 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382278)
3. **HB127 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363898)
4. **HB127 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365609)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2097, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359966)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2364, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363856)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2877, Bayham, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364973)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #3022, Muscarello, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365499)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3458, Hodges, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373994)
10. **HB127 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379325)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#487) — **71–32** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#944) — **29–10** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1467) — **82–17** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mike Bayham — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-10** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 542. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Read by title, roll called, yeas 82, nays 17, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/28/2024.
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 10 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-08** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-07** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-17** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 71, nays 32. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-15** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-04-15** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2024.
- **2024-04-10** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-09** Reported with amendments (9-4). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/23/2024.
- **2024-02-22** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b8c7e08b-41d6-4f56-8314-5a57c2de4dee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).