---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Defines judicial agencies. (8/1/25)"
description: "CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Defines judicial agencies. (8/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 135"
citation: "Louisiana SB 135 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Abraham"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e8fb5d7-5c7d-4b3b-8f2a-1b178e023a97"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248488"
source_hash: "5e0eb7364ba47a0ba39eab08f205f38739005d0230d0c9683f0580e918af71ac"
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 135 (2025) — CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Defines judicial agencies. (8/1/25)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB135 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403830)
2. **SB135 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425513)
3. **SB135 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409915)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1039, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409797)
5. **SB135 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422182)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#139) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#901) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mark Abraham — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 328. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-10** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-08** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-02** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-28** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-06** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-05** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-05** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-29** 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 B. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** 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/1e8fb5d7-5c7d-4b3b-8f2a-1b178e023a97`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).