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LouisianaSB 382025 Regular SessionSenate

CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Creates the crime of theft of gift cards or gift card redemption information. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Sponsored By: Bob Hensgens (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Administration of Criminal JusticeJudiciary C

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Bill Overview

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

Gift-card fraud brings penalties and repayment

Beginning August 1, 2025, Louisiana's access-device fraud law covers gift cards and related account information. Gift cards include prepaid cards, codes, or devices redeemable for goods or services. Knowingly possessing 15 or more counterfeit or misappropriated access devices with intent to defraud is a crime. Gift-card value means the maximum face value while held for sale or the funds deposited at activation and purchase. For theft or misappropriation, maximum prison terms and fines depend on the total value: $25,000 or more, 20 years at hard labor and $50,000; $5,000 to under $25,000, 10 years and $10,000; $1,000 to under $5,000, five years and $3,000; under $1,000, six months and $500. These penalties allow imprisonment, a fine, or both. A third or later conviction carries up to two years in prison, a $2,000 fine, or both. Separate acts are added together to determine the penalty tier, even when they involve different victims. The law defines transfer as selling, giving, providing, or transmitting. Courts must order restitution under Louisiana's criminal procedure rules when sentencing someone under this fraud law. The law removes explicit examples covering attorney fees and costs to fix credit history or resulting debts. The provided text does not establish whether those costs remain recoverable under the referenced rules.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Bob Hensgens

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 141 • No: 0

House vote • 5/27/2025

Read third time by title, amended, 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: 7 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/22/2025

Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 36 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 28.

    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, amended, 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 (7-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/14/2025House

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

    4/23/2025House

  13. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    4/22/2025Senate

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

    4/22/2025House

  15. Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.

    4/16/2025Senate

  16. Reported favorably.

    4/15/2025Senate

  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.

    3/31/2025Senate

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