---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL/VICTIMS: Provides relative to victims of certain sex-related crimes (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)"
description: "CRIMINAL/VICTIMS: Provides relative to victims of certain sex-related crimes (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 163"
citation: "Louisiana HB 163 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kellee Dickerson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-31"
last_action: "2025-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a912604-b912-4651-99c7-89fc7d0bacc5"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248073"
source_hash: "66bb4e93d7791dc81c580cecbdd925320d07544a515ee86dc6e5762037e00731"
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 163 (2025) — CRIMINAL/VICTIMS: Provides relative to victims of certain sex-related crimes (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB163 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400262)
2. **HB163 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425478)
3. **HB163 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412370)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1066, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412314)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2321, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411701)
6. **HB163 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422149)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#671) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#417) — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kellee Dickerson — primary (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-10** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 226. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-08** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-04** 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`
- **2025-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-06-02** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-29** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.
- **2025-05-28** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-14** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-14** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-14** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2025.
- **2025-05-13** Notice given.
- **2025-05-13** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-05-12** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2025.
- **2025-05-08** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-07** Reported with amendments (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`
- **2025-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a912604-b912-4651-99c7-89fc7d0bacc5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).