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type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME: Designates the crime of illegal use of weapons or dangerous instrumentalities as a crime of violence (Item #8) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "CRIME: Designates the crime of illegal use of weapons or dangerous instrumentalities as a crime of violence (Item #8) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024s2"
identifier: "HB 5"
citation: "Louisiana HB 5 (2024s2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Johnson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-08"
last_action: "2024-03-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82d893e4-835d-4260-bb80-dff9dd3f5568"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245597"
source_hash: "12884a0c598c62943848691d3cd94ed603d3e51f9e46c4cc20cee69221ed03ef"
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 5 (2024s2) — CRIME: Designates the crime of illegal use of weapons or dangerous instrumentalities as a crime of violence (Item #8) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB5 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1342729)
2. **HB5 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353230)
3. **HB5 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344483)
4. **HB5 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350198)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#34) — **8519** (pass) · lower
- CRIMINAL JUSTICE (#8) — **7526** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#67) — **2811** (pass) · upper
- SUSPEND THE RULES (#23) — **7328** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Mike Johnson — primary (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-03-06** Effective date: 04/29/2024.
- **2024-03-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 17. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-02-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-02-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-02-29** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-02-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 11 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-26** Rules suspended. Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2024-02-26** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 85, nays 19. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-02-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 02/22/2024.
- **2024-02-21** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** Rules suspended.
- **2024-02-20** Reported favorably (14-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-19** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-09** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/9/2024.
- **2024-02-08** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-08** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/82d893e4-835d-4260-bb80-dff9dd3f5568`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).