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Yes: 229 • No: 2
LouisianaHB 52025 Regular SessionHouse
CRIME/SEX OFFENSES: Provides relative to penalties for certain sex offenses (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
Sponsored By: Steven Jackson (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
Judiciary CAdministration of Criminal Justice
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 3 costs, 1 mixed.
More help and rights for victims
Children identified as victims of soliciting for prostitutes must receive referrals and eligibility for specialized trafficking-victim services. Child trafficking victims cannot be prosecuted under that section for violations directly caused by being trafficked. Identified adult victims must be told about available treatment or specialized services; the law does not guarantee services exist. More victims and witnesses of listed trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation crimes receive Louisiana's basic victim-rights protections.
Higher penalties for commercial sex offenses
For general commercial-sex purchase cases, the maximum fine rises from $750 to $1,000. The maximum prison term rises from six months to one year, with or without hard labor. A second or later conviction for soliciting for prostitutes carries a $1,500–$2,000 fine and up to one year imprisonment. That imprisonment can also include hard labor.
More offenders face sex offender registration
More listed trafficking and commercial-sex crimes fall under Louisiana's sex offender registration and notification rules. These include specified offenses involving soliciting for prostitutes under 18 and purchasing commercial sexual activity. Coverage includes convictions and court outcomes that defer or withhold a final judgment. The definition reaches offenses committed on or after June 18, 1992, and earlier offenses for certain people in state custody. Equivalent out-of-jurisdiction convictions count, subject to due-process safeguards; qualifying protections are required for foreign or tribal convictions.
Trafficking convictions trigger seizure of property
After a human-trafficking or child-sex-trafficking conviction, courts must order personal property used in the crime seized or impounded. Covered property includes vehicles, phones, computers, and money used in the offense. The property is sold, distributed, or otherwise disposed of under Louisiana's forfeiture law.
Tougher child exploitation sentences, fewer fine minimums
Louisiana creates an explicit offense for knowingly soliciting or purchasing someone under 18 for commercial sex. Covered offenses involving ages 14–17 carry 15–50 years in prison and fines up to $50,000. That tier also covers purchasing commercial sex from someone the buyer knows is a trafficking victim. Covered offenses involving children under 14 carry 25–50 years and fines up to $75,000. At least five years in the lower tier, or 10 in the higher tier, prohibit probation, parole, or sentence suspension. The law also removes stated minimum fines for specified purchase and solicitation offenses.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Steven Jackson
Democratic • House
Cosponsors
Alonzo L. Knox
Democratic • House
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 6/9/2025
Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 2, Senate amendments concurred in.
Yes: 99 • No: 2
Senate vote • 6/8/2025
Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
Yes: 38 • No: 0
House vote • 5/20/2025
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 82, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
Yes: 82 • No: 0
House vote • 5/14/2025
Reported with amendments
Yes: 10 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 230.
6/20/2025HouseSigned by the President of the Senate.
6/11/2025SenateSent to the Governor for executive approval.
6/11/2025HouseEnrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
6/10/2025HouseRead by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 2, Senate amendments concurred in.
6/9/2025HouseRules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
6/8/2025SenateReceived from the Senate with amendments.
6/8/2025HouseScheduled for concurrence on 06/09/2025.
6/8/2025HouseReported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
6/4/2025SenateReported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
6/3/2025SenateRead second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.
5/27/2025SenateReceived in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
5/21/2025SenateRead third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 82, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
5/20/2025HouseScheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.
5/19/2025HouseRead by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
5/15/2025HouseReported with amendments (10-0).
5/14/2025HouseRead by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
4/14/2025HouseFirst appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/21/2025.
2/21/2025HousePrefiled.
2/17/2025HouseUnder the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
2/17/2025House
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