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LouisianaHB 352025 Regular SessionHouse

CRIME: Provides for a minimum mandatory sentence for certain hit and run driving offenses (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Sponsored By: Troy D. Romero

Signed by Governor

Judiciary CAdministration of Criminal Justice

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

Mandatory prison time for serious hit-and-runs

In Louisiana, these penalties apply when a hit-and-run crash directly causes death or serious bodily injury. The driver's vehicle must have been directly involved. The driver must have known or should have known that death or serious bodily injury occurred. The penalty is two to ten years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000. Two years must be served without parole, probation, or a suspended sentence.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Troy D. Romero

    Affiliation unavailable

Cosponsors

  • Phillip Eric Tarver

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 144 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/29/2025

Rules suspended. 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 • 5/6/2025

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 97 • No: 0

House vote • 4/29/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 10 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 124.

    6/8/2025House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2025.

    6/8/2025House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/3/2025House

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

    6/2/2025House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/2/2025Senate

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

    5/29/2025Senate

  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/29/2025House

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

    5/27/2025Senate

  9. Rules suspended.

    5/21/2025Senate

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

    5/21/2025Senate

  11. Reported favorably.

    5/20/2025Senate

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

    5/7/2025Senate

  13. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/6/2025House

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

    5/6/2025Senate

  15. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2025.

    5/5/2025House

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

    4/30/2025House

  17. Reported with amendments (10-0).

    4/29/2025House

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

    4/14/2025House

  19. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/7/2025.

    3/7/2025House

  20. Prefiled.

    3/6/2025House

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

    3/6/2025House

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