---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME: Provides relative to cruelty and exploitation of the elderly (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
description: "CRIME: Provides relative to cruelty and exploitation of the elderly (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 363"
citation: "Louisiana HB 363 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vincent Cox III"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-03"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/93be4bc6-7d1d-4ed4-8ac9-e4d5c6c8ece0"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248350"
source_hash: "05fb9ab3985da34d4a1b22d04066132c9a2972464ad03808d6c21720a4ca2988"
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 363 (2025) — CRIME: Provides relative to cruelty and exploitation of the elderly (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB363 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402941)
2. **HB363 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425111)
3. **HB363 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407852)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1392, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406667)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1555, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407790)
6. **HB363 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420859)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#593) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#114) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Vincent Cox III — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — 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. 186. `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 38 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`
- **2025-04-30** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-29** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2025.
- **2025-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-23** 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`
- **2025-04-03** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/93be4bc6-7d1d-4ed4-8ac9-e4d5c6c8ece0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).