republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/sb-162.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Creates the Secure Online Child Interaction and Age Limitation Act. (8/1/23) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Creates the Secure Online Child Interaction and Age Limitation Act. (8/1/23) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 162"
citation: "Louisiana SB 162 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick McMath"]
version_count: 20
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5671cdfd-d44b-423f-93fe-495e9c150aeb"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244520"
source_hash: "93d1450be51fcbcf2c1275aa27924318eb11802d2c179b6f15cdea71f2726777"
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 162 (2023) — COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Creates the Secure Online Child Interaction and Age Limitation Act. (8/1/23) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB162 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309683)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3511, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326831)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3528, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326833)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3548, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326830)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3594, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326538)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #3752, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327557)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #4123, Pressly, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330245)
8. **SB162 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1333323)
9. **SB162 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312993)
10. **SB162 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323380)
11. **SB162 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322075)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1098, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317274)
13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1694, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321826)
14. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1722, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321964)
15. **Senate Committee Amendment, #540, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312508)
16. **Senate Committee Amendment, #610, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312977)
17. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1805, McMath, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322589)
18. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1838, McMath, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323004)
19. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1829, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322968)
20. **SB162 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331251)

## Votes

- AMENDMENT # 4123 BY PRESSLY, MOTION TO ADOPT (#1009) — **15–84** (fail) · lower
- CONCUR (#941) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#335) — **18–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1010) — **76–18** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#334) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Patrick McMath — primary (person)
- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-28** Effective date 7/1/2024.
- **2023-06-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 456. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-07** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-06** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 76, nays 18. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-06-05** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended.
- **2023-06-05** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-06-02** Reported favorably (18-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-31** Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2023-05-30** Reported with amendments (9-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-18** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-17** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered re- reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-16** Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered reengrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-05-15** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-19** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2023-04-18** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5671cdfd-d44b-423f-93fe-495e9c150aeb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).