---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME/MISDEMEANOR: Creates the crime of approaching a peace officer lawfully engaged in law enforcement duties (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
description: "CRIME/MISDEMEANOR: Creates the crime of approaching a peace officer lawfully engaged in law enforcement duties (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 173"
citation: "Louisiana HB 173 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Fontenot"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-26"
last_action: "2024-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79698513-8d0e-47ae-bd29-6c27d18e9186"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245747"
source_hash: "9faaf4059080e11cc5ec3c5e6b6d0fff2ebcbf79bf9b5b387272915cf5fc63e5"
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 173 (2024) — CRIME/MISDEMEANOR: Creates the crime of approaching a peace officer lawfully engaged in law enforcement duties (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB173 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346597)
2. **HB173 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379614)
3. **HB173 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358207)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1765, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357928)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1794, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358148)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #2236, Carter, Wilford, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361576)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2240, Carter, Wilford, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361581)
8. **HB173 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375871)

## Votes

- AMENDMENT # 2240 BY CARTER, W., MOTION TO ADOPT (#176) — **33–70** (fail) · lower
- SUSPEND THE RULES (#175) — **37–56** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#946) — **27–12** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#177) — **81–20** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryan Fontenot — primary (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-24** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 259. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-22** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 12 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`
- **2024-04-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 81, nays 20. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/02/2024.
- **2024-03-27** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-26** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79698513-8d0e-47ae-bd29-6c27d18e9186`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).