---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME/SEX OFFENSES: Provides relative to penalties for certain sex offenses (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
description: "CRIME/SEX OFFENSES: Provides relative to penalties for certain sex offenses (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 5"
citation: "Louisiana HB 5 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steven Jackson"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-17"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/870a99e4-d278-48a0-b219-e13d0e69deaf"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247884"
source_hash: "8d81e565c04bfc37313d957f0440f3594dc061c6bb52b4e8cd758c948886b64c"
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 5 (2025) — CRIME/SEX OFFENSES: Provides relative to penalties for certain sex offenses (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB5 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1393851)
2. **HB5 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425941)
3. **HB5 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414920)
4. **HB5 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416543)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2477, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413192)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2892, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414850)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2930, Jackson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416269)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2687, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420794)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2702, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420869)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2967, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422352)
11. **HB5 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423641)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#477) — **82–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#680) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#990) — **99–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Steven Jackson — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 230. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-10** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-09** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 2, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-08** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/09/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-20** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 82, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.
- **2025-05-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-14** 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`
- **2025-02-21** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/21/2025.
- **2025-02-17** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/870a99e4-d278-48a0-b219-e13d0e69deaf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).