republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-479.md

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Bill	CRIMINAL/VICTIMS: Provides relative to witness or victim notification (EN +$3,795,206 GF EX See Note)	CRIMINAL/VICTIMS: Provides relative to witness or victim notification (EN +$3,795,206 GF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	HB 479	Louisiana HB 479 (2025)	bill		enacted	Mandie Landry	11	28	5	2025-04-04	2025-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/80d56746-5d40-4047-a764-158af80e86b5	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248511	61fa80b40b1894c85a9446746f46a11c9715d6b7ca91ed2eee3e390142926df6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 479 (2025) — CRIMINAL/VICTIMS: Provides relative to witness or victim notification (EN +$3,795,206 GF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB479 Original (filed) — source
2. HB479 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB479 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB479 Re-Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. HB479 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #3072, APP, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. House Committee Amendment, #3108, APP, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #598, Horton, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #2685, JUDC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Committee Amendment, #2699, JUDC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. HB479 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1221) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#529) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#931) — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• 2/3 vote (#903) — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• MOTION TO CONSIDER AFTER 57TH DAY (#1187) — 87–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mandie Landry — primary (person)
• Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
• Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
• Annie Spell — cosponsor (person)
• Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
• C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
• Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
• Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
• Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
• Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• Jacob Braud — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
• Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
• Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
• Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
• John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
• Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
• Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
• Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
• Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
• Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
• Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
• Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
• Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
• Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
• Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-20 Effective date: 06/20/2025.
• 2025-06-20 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 370. became-law, executive-signature
• 2025-06-12 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2025-06-12 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2025-06-12 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2025-06-11 Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2025-06-11 Rules suspended.
• 2025-06-11 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2025-06-11 The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-06-11 Notice House approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 57th calendar day.
• 2025-06-11 By a vote of 87 yeas, 0 nays, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the House approved consideration after the 57th calendar day.
• 2025-06-11 Notice Senate approved consideration after the 57th calendar day.
• 2025-06-10 Read by title. The Senate approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 57th calendar day by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2025-06-09 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2025-06-09 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2025-06-09 Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
• 2025-06-03 Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title; recommitted to the Committee on Finance. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-28 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-05-27 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2025-05-21 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-05-20 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2025.
• 2025-05-20 Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-05-19 Reported with amendments (16-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-22 Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
• 2025-04-16 Reported favorably (11-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/80d56746-5d40-4047-a764-158af80e86b5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).