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LouisianaHB 3052026 Regular SessionHouse

CRIME/SEX OFFENSES: Provides relative to child sexual abuse materials (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsored By: Kim Carver (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary CAdministration of Criminal Justice

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

New sharing rules for child abuse cases

Louisiana law requires agencies to share child sexual abuse images after prosecutors file formal charges under the state's abuse-materials law. Investigators must send seized images to the Attorney General's Internet Crimes Against Children division. That division must forward them to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's Child Victim Identification Program. It must request the program's agency contact information and provide case details under the center's guidelines. Investigators must also send case details and images for newly created abuse materials, as those guidelines request. For images showing an identified victim, the division must give the assigned prosecutor the agency contacts supplied by the program. When charges are filed and an identified victim lives in Louisiana, investigators must submit additional details to the program. These include the parish, district, and docket number or agency file number; defendant's name, race, sex, and birth date; victim's biographical details; and identifying-agency contacts, including program contacts. These duties shift reporting from the state's victim-identification database to the national program. Failure to comply does not invalidate a sentence, plea, conviction, or other final outcome. It also gives no one grounds to sue investigators, prosecutors, or their officers or agents for that failure.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Kim Carver

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 149 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/6/2026

Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 37 • No: 0

House vote • 4/9/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 101 • No: 0

House vote • 4/1/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 11 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/7/2026.

    5/11/2026Senate

  2. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 65.

    5/11/2026House

  3. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/11/2026House

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/8/2026House

  5. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/7/2026House

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

    5/7/2026House

  7. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/6/2026Senate

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

    4/27/2026Senate

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

    4/22/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    4/21/2026Senate

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

    4/14/2026Senate

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

    4/13/2026Senate

  13. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/9/2026House

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/09/2026.

    4/8/2026House

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

    4/7/2026House

  16. Reported favorably (11-0).

    4/1/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

  18. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

    2/27/2026House

  19. Prefiled.

    2/24/2026House

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

    2/24/2026House

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