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LouisianaHB 5792026 Regular SessionHouse

CRIMINAL/VICTIMS: Provides relative to the rights of survivors of sexual assault

Sponsored By: Vanessa Caston LaFleur (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary BJudiciary

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Analyzed Economic Effects

4 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Free long-term evidence storage for survivors

Louisiana sexual assault survivors have the right to free storage of their sexual assault collection kits. This includes kits from assaults that survivors have not reported. Kits must be kept for the longest period required by law or policy, but never less than 20 years.

Victims can address inmates at hearings

Louisiana's pardon board or parole committee must notify victims or their families, registered notification recipients, and the district attorney about scheduled hearings. Victims, victim advocacy groups, and the district attorney or a representative can participate in person, by teleconference, or by telephone. Victims can give written or spoken statements and respond to statements or evidence. Victims and family members can direct statements to the inmate or defendant unless this disrupts the hearing's order.

Survivors get rights notices and complaint channels

Louisiana sexual assault survivors have the right to notice of all rights in the Sexual Assault Survivor Bill of Rights. When Louisiana receives discretionary STOP Violence Against Women Formula Grant funds, it must use them to update and provide the notice. Sexual assault service providers help develop the notice, and the Louisiana Sexual Assault Oversight Commission must approve it. Complaints about rights violations can go directly to either the Senate or House Select Committee on Women and Children for oversight. Survivors also keep other rights available under Louisiana law.

Victim privacy protections have death-related exceptions

Louisiana public officials and agencies generally cannot publicly disclose names, addresses, contact details, or identities of protected crime victims. This covers people who were minors when the crime occurred and sex-offense or human-trafficking victims, regardless of the crime's date. Specified privacy protections do not apply to victims under 18 killed in listed homicides or crimes where death is an element. They also do not apply to sex-offense or trafficking victims killed in those crimes when the death relates to that offense. Victims can waive privacy, and this rule does not require removing their names from records they request themselves.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Vanessa Caston LaFleur

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • Aimee Adatto Freeman

    Democratic • House

  • Barbara Reich Freiberg

    Republican • House

  • C. Denise Marcelle

    Democratic • House

  • Dana Henry

    Democratic • House

  • Delisha Boyd

    Democratic • House

  • Doyle Boudreaux

    Republican • House

  • Ed Larvadain III

    Democratic • House

  • Ed Murray

    Democratic • House

  • Jeremy LaCombe

    Republican • House

  • Ken Brass

    Democratic • House

  • Kyle M. Green Jr.

    Democratic • House

  • Mandie Landry

    Democratic • House

  • Marcus Anthony Bryant

    Democratic • House

  • Pat Moore

    Democratic • House

  • Rodney Lyons

    Democratic • House

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

  • Terry Landry Jr.

    Democratic • House

  • Timothy P. Kerner

    Republican • House

  • Wilford Carter Sr.

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 245 • No: 0

House vote • 5/29/2026

Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 97 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/26/2026

Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 35 • No: 0

House vote • 5/6/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 98 • No: 0

House vote • 4/29/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 15 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 815.

    6/8/2026House

  2. Effective date: 06/08/2026.

    6/8/2026House

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/1/2026Senate

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/1/2026House

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

    5/31/2026House

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

    5/29/2026House

  7. Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.

    5/27/2026House

  8. Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/26/2026Senate

  9. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    5/26/2026House

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

    5/20/2026Senate

  11. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/19/2026Senate

  12. Reported with amendments.

    5/18/2026Senate

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

    5/7/2026Senate

  14. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/6/2026House

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

    5/6/2026Senate

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

    5/5/2026House

  17. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2026.

    5/5/2026House

  18. Reported with amendments (15-0).

    4/29/2026House

  19. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

    3/9/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

  21. Prefiled.

    2/26/2026House

  22. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

    2/26/2026House

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