---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME: Provides relative to unlawful use of an unmanned aircraft system (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
description: "CRIME: Provides relative to unlawful use of an unmanned aircraft system (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 261"
citation: "Louisiana HB 261 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jay Galle"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-01"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88169843-c7d8-4c37-8025-ff581e9442b7"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248192"
source_hash: "ba68d8e8c3707234624c5341683681a70447f09f50ae2aea83c2299f0932b87d"
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 261 (2025) — CRIME: Provides relative to unlawful use of an unmanned aircraft system (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB261 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1401331)
2. **HB261 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425158)
3. **HB261 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412416)
4. **HB261 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414489)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1252, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411402)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2401, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412380)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2555, Galle, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413168)
8. **HB261 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420841)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#581) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#368) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jay Galle — primary (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 170. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** 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** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **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. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-13** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **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 (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/88169843-c7d8-4c37-8025-ff581e9442b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).