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LouisianaHB 1632025 Regular SessionHouse

CRIMINAL/VICTIMS: Provides relative to victims of certain sex-related crimes (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)

Sponsored By: Kellee Hennessy Dickerson (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary CAdministration of Criminal Justice

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.

New $2,000 charge for qualifying convictions

People convicted of listed crimes, including those pleading guilty or no contest, must pay a one-time $2,000 assessment. Covered crimes include specified domestic-abuse and dating-partner batteries, rape, sexual battery, human trafficking, and child sexual exploitation. The charge is added to fines and does not reduce fines or forfeitures. Courts must order payments based on financial ability for people found indigent and unable to pay at conviction.

Survivor fund supports crime victim services

Louisiana renames the Exploited Children’s Survivor Special Fund as the Survivor Special Fund. It supports services and treatment for adult and child victims of trafficking, domestic violence, and sexual assault. Spending requires legislative approval. The law assigns 25% to qualifying child advocacy centers serving children harmed by sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect, or trafficking. Another 25% goes to the state domestic violence coalition for member programs offering community services and shelter. Accredited Louisiana sexual assault crisis centers receive 50% to serve victims of sexual assault and exploitation. The Governor’s Office of Human Trafficking Prevention may retain up to 10% for necessary fund administration. In covered sex-crime forfeitures, proceeds first pay sale costs, court costs, and storage fees, then victim restitution. The fund receives 50% of what remains; other fine and forfeiture distributions stay unchanged unless the law expressly provides otherwise. The treasury fund also receives legislative appropriations, required assessments, and related interest, after required state bond payments, and faces public audits.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Kellee Hennessy Dickerson

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Regina Barrow

    Democratic • Senate

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 139 • No: 0

Senate vote • 6/4/2025

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 36 • No: 0

House vote • 5/14/2025

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 93 • No: 0

House vote • 5/7/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 10 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 226.

    6/10/2025House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2025.

    6/10/2025House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/9/2025House

  4. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    6/8/2025House

  5. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

    6/8/2025House

  6. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/8/2025Senate

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    6/4/2025Senate

  8. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    6/3/2025Senate

  9. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    6/3/2025Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    6/2/2025Senate

  11. Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.

    5/29/2025Senate

  12. Reported favorably.

    5/28/2025Senate

  13. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.

    5/19/2025Senate

  14. Called from the calendar.

    5/14/2025House

  15. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/14/2025House

  16. Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    5/14/2025Senate

  17. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    5/13/2025House

  18. Notice given.

    5/13/2025House

  19. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2025.

    5/13/2025House

  20. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2025.

    5/12/2025House

  21. Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    5/8/2025House

  22. Reported with amendments (10-0).

    5/7/2025House

  23. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.

    4/14/2025House

  24. Prefiled.

    3/31/2025House

  25. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.

    3/31/2025House

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