---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME/HOMICIDE: Provides relative to homicide when the victim is a person with infirmities (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
description: "CRIME/HOMICIDE: Provides relative to homicide when the victim is a person with infirmities (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 14"
citation: "Louisiana HB 14 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vincent Cox III"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-24"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f65e50d-0702-4ef7-9f22-ade540b29927"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247897"
source_hash: "770ece81c91e2252f4cfd5457a8697da8a9931dc0d5241eeac7191c588a3b6ce"
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 14 (2025) — CRIME/HOMICIDE: Provides relative to homicide when the victim is a person with infirmities (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB14 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1394572)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #4131, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423100)
3. **HB14 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425944)
4. **HB14 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409614)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2308, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418568)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2309, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418572)
7. **HB14 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424839)

## Votes

- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1209) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#863) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#549) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#230) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#939) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Vincent Cox III — primary (person)
- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 343. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-12** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-11** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2025-06-11** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2025-06-11** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-11** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2025-06-11** Rules suspended.
- **2025-06-11** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2025-06-10** Conference committee report received.
- **2025-06-09** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2025-06-09** Senate conference committee members appointed: Abraham, Barrow, and Connick.
- **2025-06-04** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2025-06-04** House conferees appointed: Cox, Villio, and Bacala.
- **2025-06-04** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2025-06-04** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2025-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-29** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-28** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-06** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2025.
- **2025-04-30** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Reported favorably (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/28/2025.
- **2025-02-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0f65e50d-0702-4ef7-9f22-ade540b29927`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).