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LouisianaSB 222025 Regular SessionSenate

THEFT: Creates the crime of theft of critical infrastructure. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Sponsored By: Valarie Hodges (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Administration of Criminal JusticeJudiciary C

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

More sites covered by infrastructure crimes

Beginning August 1, 2025, Louisiana expands the property covered by its unauthorized-entry law; the new infrastructure theft law uses the same definition. Covered property includes structures, sites, and movable or fixed equipment at chemical plants, factories, refineries, power facilities, and water facilities. It also includes gas storage and transmission facilities, transportation facilities, floodgates, pump stations, and communications and internet facilities. Covered communications property includes transmission equipment and wires, broadcast television and video equipment, and fiber optics. Sites where covered facilities or structures are being built or improved also count as critical infrastructure.

Infrastructure thieves face penalties and repayment

Beginning August 1, 2025, Louisiana makes taking or illegally possessing critical infrastructure a crime when someone intends to permanently deprive its owner. For property worth under $25,000, penalties reach $10,000, 15 years in prison with or without hard labor, or both. For property worth $25,000 or more, penalties reach $50,000, 20 years at hard labor, or both. That higher tier also applies when the theft foreseeably threatens human life, regardless of value. Courts must also order full repayment to victims, with periodic payments based on financial ability for indigent offenders unable to pay in full at conviction.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Valarie Hodges

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Adrian Fisher

    Democratic • House

  • Beryl Amedée

    Republican • House

  • Charles Owen

    Republican • House

  • Roy Daryl Adams

    Democratic • House

  • Debbie Villio

    Republican • House

  • Joe Stagni

    Affiliation unavailable

  • John R. Illg Jr.

    Republican • House

  • John E. Wyble

    Republican • House

  • Kathy Edmonston

    Republican • House

  • Michael Charles Echols

    Republican • House

  • Rodney Schamerhorn

    Republican • House

  • Steven Jackson

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 146 • No: 0

House vote • 5/27/2025

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

Yes: 98 • No: 0

House vote • 5/14/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 10 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/28/2025

Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 38 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 26.

    6/4/2025Senate

  2. Effective date 8/1/2025.

    6/4/2025Senate

  3. Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/30/2025.

    6/1/2025Senate

  4. Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/29/2025Senate

  5. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/29/2025House

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

    5/27/2025House

  7. Received from the House with amendments.

    5/27/2025Senate

  8. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/2025.

    5/22/2025House

  9. Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.

    5/19/2025House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/15/2025House

  11. Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/14/2025House

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

    4/29/2025House

  13. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    4/28/2025Senate

  14. Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.

    4/28/2025House

  15. Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.

    4/23/2025Senate

  16. Reported with amendments.

    4/22/2025Senate

  17. Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.

    4/14/2025Senate

  18. Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.

    3/28/2025Senate

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