---
type: "Bill"
title: "LAW ENFORCEMENT: Provides relative to warrants for interception of communications. (8/1/25)"
description: "LAW ENFORCEMENT: Provides relative to warrants for interception of communications. (8/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 53"
citation: "Louisiana SB 53 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adam Bass"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-01"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64b2927b-7e78-4ea6-a82a-f6373aae9211"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248201"
source_hash: "c38a6c40205a8bc0e5a4d18ea4b760a522f6ce70f2f41c07c234d852a8869dae"
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 53 (2025) — LAW ENFORCEMENT: Provides relative to warrants for interception of communications. (8/1/25)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB53 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1401539)
2. **SB53 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422215)
3. **SB53 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407038)
4. **SB53 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417896)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#585) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#66) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Adam Bass — 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. 33. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-05-29** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-28** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-05-28** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-27** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2025.
- **2025-05-12** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-07** Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-29** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-28** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-04-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-22** 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 B. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/64b2927b-7e78-4ea6-a82a-f6373aae9211`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).