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IntroducedFeb 25, 2026
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Passed SenateMar 23, 2026
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Passed HouseMay 20, 2026
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Became Law
Louisiana Senate Bill
COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to the licensing and regulation of virtual currency businesses. (8/1/26)
Last Action See all actions
Senate • May 26, 2026: Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate.
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Summary
Comments on SB 163
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Votes
YES: 97
- Adams
- Egan
- McMakin
- Amedee
- Farnum
- Melerine
- Bacala
- Firment
- Mena
- Bamburg
- Fisher
- Miller
- Bayham
- Fontenot
- Moore
- Beaullieu
- Freeman
- Murray
- Berault
- Freiberg
- Muscarello
- Billings
- Gadberry
- Newell
- Boudreaux
- Galle
- Orgeron
- Bourriaque
- Geymann
- Owen
- Boyd
- Glorioso
- Phelps
- Boyer
- Green
- Riser
- Brass
- Hebert
- Sawyer
- Braud
- Henry, C.
- Schamerhorn
- Broussard
- Henry, D.
- Schlegel
- Bryant
- Illg
- Spell
- Butler
- Jackson
- St. Blanc
- Carlson
- Johnson, M.
- Stagni
- Carpenter
- Johnson, T.
- Tarver
- Carrier
- Jordan
- Taylor
- Carter, R.
- Kerner
- Thomas
- Carver
- Knox
- Turner
- Chassion
- LaCombe
- Ventrella
- Chenevert
- LaFleur
- Villio
- Coates
- Landry, J.
- Walters
- Cox
- Landry, T.
- Wilder
- Crews
- Larvadain
- Wiley
- Deshotel
- Lyons
- Wright
- Dewitt
- Mack
- Wyble
- Dickerson
- Marcelle
- Young
- Domangue
- Martinez
- Zeringue
- Echols
- McCormick
- Edmonston
- McMahen
NO: 0
Actions
- May 26, 2026 | Senate
- Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate.
- May 26, 2026 | House
- Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- May 26, 2026 | Senate
- Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- May 25, 2026 | Senate
- Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- May 20, 2026 | Senate
- Received from the House with amendments.
- May 20, 2026 | House
- Called from the calendar.
- Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.
- May 18, 2026 | House
- Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2026.
- Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- Notice given.
- Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2026.
- May 13, 2026 | House
- Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- May 12, 2026 | House
- Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- May 11, 2026 | House
- Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- Mar 25, 2026 | House
- Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce.
- Mar 24, 2026 | House
- Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- Mar 23, 2026 | Senate
- Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
- Mar 16, 2026 | Senate
- Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- Mar 11, 2026 | Senate
- Reported favorably.
- Mar 09, 2026 | Senate
- Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs.
- Feb 25, 2026 | Senate
- Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs.

