---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Creates the crime of theft of gift cards or gift card redemption information. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
description: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Creates the crime of theft of gift cards or gift card redemption information. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 38"
citation: "Louisiana SB 38 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Hensgens"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-31"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab397806-a9fb-47f9-b72d-051bf408ccf6"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248093"
source_hash: "17ac304589cbaa9402cfa4c2553271c3c75f642ec5b010615bdb7b403685b431"
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 38 (2025) — CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Creates the crime of theft of gift cards or gift card redemption information. (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. **SB38 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400324)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2024, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410214)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2896, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414870)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #3281, Bacala, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417289)
5. **SB38 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422210)
6. **SB38 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405642)
7. **SB38 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419073)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#23) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#632) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#408) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bob Hensgens — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 28. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/30/2025. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-05-27** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-27** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/2025.
- **2025-05-19** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-14** Reported with amendments (7-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-23** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-22** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-04-22** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-04-16** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-15** Reported favorably. `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`
- **2025-03-31** 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/ab397806-a9fb-47f9-b72d-051bf408ccf6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).