---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME: Provides relative to the Anti-Skimming Act"
description: "CRIME: Provides relative to the Anti-Skimming Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 211"
citation: "Louisiana HB 211 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debbie Villio"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-26"
last_action: "2024-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f76bce3b-c29e-46b2-8bcc-97103688d108"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245817"
source_hash: "e7452975f47d155bd80d3bcf1e79396d9dc8ac4685c07025455acffd3558a2db"
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 211 (2024) — CRIME: Provides relative to the Anti-Skimming Act

## Version chain

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

1. **HB211 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346936)
2. **HB211 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372999)
3. **HB211 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358129)
4. **HB211 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370809)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#184) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#460) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Debbie Villio — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — cosponsor (person)
- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-08** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 21. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-06** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/1/2024.
- **2024-05-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-04-30** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-04-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-17** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-16** 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 101, nays 0. 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-26** Reported favorably (13-0). `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/f76bce3b-c29e-46b2-8bcc-97103688d108`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).