---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME: Increases the penalties for malfeasance in office (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
description: "CRIME: Increases the penalties for malfeasance in office (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 852"
citation: "Louisiana HB 852 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mandie Landry"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c163eee-c7b5-409c-bc77-6a3e0e4fa49b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247008"
source_hash: "b75bff84754a17bf591e034eb70a9794f85d51037f1f269d5826a9f08e8be210"
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 852 (2024) — CRIME: Increases the penalties for malfeasance in office (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB852 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360700)
2. **HB852 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381936)
3. **HB852 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363825)
4. **HB852 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376832)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#508) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1007) — **30–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mandie Landry — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 456. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-21** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 7 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-15** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-14** 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. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-16** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/16/2024.
- **2024-04-10** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-09** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4c163eee-c7b5-409c-bc77-6a3e0e4fa49b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).