---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME: Provides relative to the crime of false statements and false or altered documents (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "CRIME: Provides relative to the crime of false statements and false or altered documents (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 134"
citation: "Louisiana HB 134 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph Marino"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-23"
last_action: "2022-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2b0d174-ca6a-4fa9-a4e0-fefbce4c9b3d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241693"
source_hash: "d877e21a434ca623918720cf1047a7d2268fe9042a8e9a1770dbd78045cefc6d"
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 134 (2022) — CRIME: Provides relative to the crime of false statements and false or altered documents (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB134 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1249869)
2. **HB134 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280933)
3. **HB134 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1262247)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1607, ACRJ, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261969)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1637, ACRJ, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1262216)
6. **HB134 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278511)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#523) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#168) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joseph Marino — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-17** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 33. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-15** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/12/2022.
- **2022-05-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-11** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-09** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-04** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-03** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-06** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-03-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/05/2022.
- **2022-03-28** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-24** Reported with amendments (9-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/25/2022.
- **2022-02-23** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e2b0d174-ca6a-4fa9-a4e0-fefbce4c9b3d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).