republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-224.md

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Bill	CRIME: Prohibits ownership of any animal by a person who has been convicted of cruelty to animals	CRIME: Prohibits ownership of any animal by a person who has been convicted of cruelty to animals	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 224	Louisiana HB 224 (2024)	bill		enacted	Timothy P. Kerner	6	19	2	2024-02-27	2024-06-10	openstates	ocd-bill/f61c18bc-6cdb-4e1f-b5c2-32f54ed6dfa9	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245837	b68da57c832999810e0cd125f12bc82d9ea199f3a340612b1227ca5e60bb92c6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 224 (2024) — CRIME: Prohibits ownership of any animal by a person who has been convicted of cruelty to animals

Version chain

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

1. HB224 Original (filed) — source
2. HB224 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB224 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #1871, ACRJ, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #2649, ACRJ, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. HB224 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#1231) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#488) — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Timothy P. Kerner — primary (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-10 Effective date: 08/01/2024.
• 2024-06-10 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 551. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-31 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-29 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-05-29 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-28 Received from the Senate without amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-28 Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-23 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-22 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-05-21 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-16 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-15 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-04-15 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-04-11 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2024.
• 2024-04-10 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-09 Reported with amendments (12-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2024-02-27 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2024-02-27 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f61c18bc-6cdb-4e1f-b5c2-32f54ed6dfa9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).