2025 Regular Session • Louisiana Legislature
HB359
Legislative Summary
Provides relative to victims of human trafficking
Demographic Impact
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Bill History
4/3/2025
Prefiled.
House of Representatives
4/3/2025
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
House of Representatives
4/14/2025
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
House of Representatives
5/14/2025
Reported with amendments (11-0).
House of Representatives
5/15/2025
Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
House of Representatives
5/19/2025
Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.
House of Representatives
5/20/2025
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
House of Representatives
5/21/2025
Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
Senate
5/27/2025
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
Senate
Amendments
House Committee Amendment #2822 H&W Draft
House Committee Amendment #2822 H&W Draft
Not Adopted
House Committee Amendment #2944 H&W Proposed
House Committee Amendment #2944 H&W Proposed
Not Adopted
House Floor Amendment #3169 Miller D. Proposed
House Floor Amendment #3169 Miller D. Proposed
Not Adopted
Roll Call Votes
House Vote on HB 359 FINAL PASSAGE (#484)
5/20/2025
97
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
8
Absent
Result: PASSED
Status Information
Current Status
Engrossed(5/21/2025)
Chamber
Senate
Committee
Health & Welfare(Senate)
Sponsors
Democrat: 12
Republican: 10
Primary Sponsor

Dustin Miller
Democrat
Co-Sponsors (21)
Mike Bayham
Republican
Stephanie Berault
Republican
Beth Billings
Republican
Dewith Carrier
Republican
Kellee Dickerson
Republican
Adrian Fisher
Democrat
Barbara Freiberg
Republican
Edmond Jordan
Democrat
Alonzo Knox
Democrat
Vanessa Caston Lafleur
Democrat
Ed Larvadain
Democrat
Rodney Lyons
Democrat
Denise Marcelle
Democrat
Dixon McMakin
Republican
Pat Moore
Democrat
Candace Newell
Democrat
Annie Spell
Republican
Joseph Stagni
Republican
Sylvia Taylor
Democrat
Joy Walters
Democrat
John Wyble
Republican