---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME: Provides relative to the crime of solicitation on certain highways and streets"
description: "CRIME: Provides relative to the crime of solicitation on certain highways and streets"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 97"
citation: "Louisiana HB 97 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dixon McMakin"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-16"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/007cc815-a45f-4145-87d1-a21c51a6ab6f"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245646"
source_hash: "c287a2465ce8c9d217fbe288278dbb098310f8c4bbe32ffe0082d1902a5d526e"
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 97 (2024) — CRIME: Provides relative to the crime of solicitation on certain highways and streets

## Version chain

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

1. **HB97 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1343806)
2. **HB97 Act 678** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382699)
3. **HB97 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358127)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2015, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365944)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2331, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368082)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4357, Morris, Jay, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379987)
7. **HB97 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381061)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#171) — **92–11** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1375) — **26–12** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1689) — **84–10** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dixon McMakin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 678. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 84, nays 10, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/2024.
- **2024-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-30** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 12 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-30** Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-29** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-29** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-14** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-04-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-24** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-23** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 11. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/02/2024.
- **2024-03-27** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-26** Reported favorably (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-16** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/16/2024.
- **2024-02-16** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-16** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/007cc815-a45f-4145-87d1-a21c51a6ab6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).