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LouisianaHB 922026 Regular SessionHouse

CRIME/SEX OFFENSES: Provides relative to time limitations and other matters concerning certain sex offenses (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Sponsored By: Laurie Schlegel (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.

Broader rape charges and discovery-based deadlines

Louisiana law expands first-degree rape to cover cases where the offender’s overpowering force prevents the victim from resisting. For third-degree rape, prosecutors have ten years to begin prosecution, starting when the victim discovers the crime. Longer periods under Articles 571.1 and 572(B), or another applicable law, still apply. The law also adds a standard charging form for forcible or second-degree rape.

Separate oral sexual battery offense removed

Louisiana law repeals the separate oral sexual battery offense in R.S. 14:43.3. It also changes the allowed verdicts for first-degree rape charges, except cases involving victims under 13. The list includes first-, second-, and third-degree rape, attempts to commit each, and not guilty. Sexual battery and attempted sexual battery replace oral sexual battery as verdict options.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Laurie Schlegel

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Michael Charles Echols

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 240 • No: 0

House vote • 5/11/2026

Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 94 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/22/2026

Senate floor amendments read and adopted. 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 • 3/24/2026

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 • 3/18/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 9 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 103.

    5/14/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/14/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/13/2026House

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

    5/12/2026House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/12/2026Senate

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

    5/11/2026House

  7. Scheduled for concurrence on 05/11/2026.

    5/7/2026House

  8. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    4/23/2026House

  9. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    4/22/2026Senate

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

    4/13/2026Senate

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

    4/8/2026Senate

  12. Reported favorably.

    4/7/2026Senate

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

    3/25/2026Senate

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

    3/24/2026House

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

    3/24/2026Senate

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

    3/23/2026House

  17. Scheduled for floor debate on 03/24/2026.

    3/23/2026House

  18. Reported favorably (9-0).

    3/18/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

  20. Prefiled.

    2/6/2026House

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

    2/6/2026House

  22. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/6/2026.

    2/6/2026House

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