CRIME/RACKETEERING: Provides for the definition of the crime of racketeering (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
This bill updates Louisiana's list of crimes that qualify as racketeering by adding seven specific offenses, such as battery against a police officer, terrorizing, and obstructing a fireman. It also modifies the bill number in the text to reflect a change in the legislative session. The law takes effect once the governor signs it or if it becomes law without a signature.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2024
Committee Review
Apr 2024
House Passage
May 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
Jun 2024
Introduced Feb 26, 2024
Signed Jun 10, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 14, 2024 · House Apr 2, 2024
How they voted
25–10
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 38
May 14, 2024
D
Democratic12
83% Nay
R
Republican26
92% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
21
Key actions
5
Committee
5
May 28, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 79, nays 19, Senate amendments concurred in.
lower
May 14, 2024
Upper · Passed
Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 10 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
Apr 24, 2024
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
Apr 23, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 2, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 86, nays 16. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Mar 26, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (9-4).
lower
Mar 11, 2024
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
lower
Feb 26, 2024
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
lower
1 primary · 8 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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