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---
type: "Bill"
title: "DOMESTIC ABUSE: Provides relative to additional penalties for certain domestic violence offenses (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "DOMESTIC ABUSE: Provides relative to additional penalties for certain domestic violence offenses (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 208"
citation: "Louisiana HB 208 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debbie Villio"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-26"
last_action: "2024-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a73f0e73-8dd0-44b4-923a-af7d9f2d884e"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245814"
source_hash: "68b146de60b423a87e3313cd50aafcc37b3965142768eba18148dc87d30f6b18"
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 208 (2024) — DOMESTIC ABUSE: Provides relative to additional penalties for certain domestic violence offenses (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB208 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346930)
2. **HB208 Act 131** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378146)
3. **HB208 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358810)
4. **HB208 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374812)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#735) — **370** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#237) — **1030** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Debbie Villio — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-05-22** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-22** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 131. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-17** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-15** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-14** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-17** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-16** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-08** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/2024.
- **2024-04-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-27** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a73f0e73-8dd0-44b4-923a-af7d9f2d884e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).