---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Prohibits any act intended to hinder, delay, prevent, or otherwise interfere with or thwart federal immigration enforcement efforts. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
description: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Prohibits any act intended to hinder, delay, prevent, or otherwise interfere with or thwart federal immigration enforcement efforts. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 15"
citation: "Louisiana SB 15 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jay Morris"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 29
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-03-19"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5b7955f-a7df-48e5-80b3-b28196cf27f4"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247977"
source_hash: "66fd8812c0041489be2783c744e046980297fc54a145d6190c47174c1d55be70"
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 SB 15 (2025) — CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Prohibits any act intended to hinder, delay, prevent, or otherwise interfere with or thwart federal immigration enforcement efforts. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB15 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1397488)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3399, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417556)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3557, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418457)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3664, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418791)
5. **SB15 Act 399** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425927)
6. **SB15 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412220)
7. **SB15 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413910)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1279, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411496)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #882, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408465)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1422, Morris, Jay, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412738)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1606, Barrow, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413867)
12. **SB15 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424186)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1039) — **71–30** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#883) — **28–9** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#214) — **28–10** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#213) — **10–27** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jay Morris — primary (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 399. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-11** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-10** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 28 yeas and 9 nays.
- **2025-06-09** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 71, nays 30. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-09** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-09** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-09** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/09/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Notice given.
- **2025-06-08** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-08** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/08/2025.
- **2025-06-03** Notice given.
- **2025-06-03** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2025.
- **2025-06-02** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-28** Reported with amendments (7-4). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-13** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-12** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 10 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-08** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-05-07** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5b7955f-a7df-48e5-80b3-b28196cf27f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).