CT 186 –  provides protections related to the disclosure of personal information about victims of sex offenses and establishes consequences for prohibited disclosure. It is intended to reduce the risk that identifying information about a victim is publicly disseminated.
This bill allows survivors of sexual violence, including victims of rape, human trafficking, and child sex abuse, to have the ability to keep their information from being public on the internet. Limiting the improper release of identifying information can help protect survivors’ privacy and safety. 

Act 637 – Provides relative to victims of human trafficking and prostitution offenses.
This bill strengthens protections for survivors of human trafficking and prostitution from being prosecuted or sentenced.
The law can reduce the criminalization of people whose conduct was a direct result of trafficking. Survivors have the opportunity to escape the threat of incarceration for something that they had been forced to participate in. It does not create blanket immunity from prosecution or sentencing for every offense committed by a trafficking survivor.

Act 724 – Creates a statewide Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Coordinator.
The Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Coordinator will be responsible for making sure that SANE nurses in Louisiana are providing the highest quality of care possible to survivors when they are seeking forensic examinations. The coordinator will also be involved in the development of the trainings for the forensic examinations and SANE programs across the state.
A statewide coordinator can help promote consistent access to trained forensic examiners and strengthen the quality and coordination of care for sexual-assault survivors.

Act 852 – Provides relative to the treatment of sexual assault survivors by hospitals and healthcare providers.
This law requires licensed hospitals and healthcare providers to offer specified medical treatments to sexual-assault survivors, including emergency contraception and HIV-prevention medication when medically indicated. These requirements support survivors’ access to timely care following an assault. This bill will require that licensed hospitals and healthcare professionals provide emergency contraception and HIV/STI post-exposure medication to survivors of sexual violence.
Survivors will now be able to access much-needed medical treatment. The emergency contraception can assist in preventing an unwanted pregnancy. The HIV and STI medication can help to prevent the transmission of a sexually transmitted infection.

Act 676 -Creates the Sexual Assault Survivor Empowerment Task Force.
The Sexual Assault Survivor Empowerment Task Force will be responsible for making recommendations around services for survivors of sexual violence in Louisiana. The task force will feature many different participants, including a survivor of sexual violence.
With the implementation of this task force, there will hopefully be improvements in the services for survivors of sexual violence in schools, local communities, work environments, etc. Additionally, including a survivor voice may help bring greater attention to the funding and prioritization of services and resources for survivors across the state. While one survivor serving on the panel cannot speak on behalf of all survivors in Louisiana, their lived experience can provide a valuable perspective and insight that other members of the task force may not have.

Act 815 – SA Survivor Bill of Rights; 20-yr kit preservation; notice.
This bill strengthens the Sexual Assault Survivor Bill of Rights and preserves sexual assault collection kits. It also provides confidentiality of certain information and the right to be notified of the SA Survivor Bill of Rights when seeking care.
This increases protection of the rights for sexual assault survivors. Sexual assault collection kits will be preserved for an increased amount of time, which can help in criminal cases. Also, the bill helps to protect survivors’ privacy.

Act 353 -DA requisite participation in statewide SA-kit tracking system.
This bill requires that the district attorney’s office send information to the state police under certain circumstances to the sexual assault collection tracking system.
This will strengthen the statewide tracking system for sexual assault collection kits, which will force the police department to be more accountable when it comes to investigating these kits and helping survivors seek justice, if they wish.

Act 251 – TREY’S Law — nondisclosure clauses void for child sexual-abuse victims.
This bill makes it so that NDAs signed by a minor who is a victim of sexual abuse are invalid. Other people who know about the abuse will be legally able to disclose details about the abuse.
This will protect children from pressure to keep quiet about their abuse. Even if a minor signs the NDA to appease their abuser, this bill protects them by making that NDA invalid.

Act 205 – Commercial sexual activity
Act 205 establishes a definition of “commercial sexual activity” within Louisiana’s human-trafficking law. The definition covers a sexual or lewd or lascivious act performed when something of value is given, promised, or received, directly or indirectly, and includes the production or transmission of child sexual-abuse materials or pornography. A clearer statutory definition can help law enforcement, prosecutors, service providers, and courts apply trafficking laws consistently.

Act 488 – DNA detection of sexual and violent offenses.
This bill emphasizes the importance of having and using scientific data like DNA to help bring justice to survivors. It also requires the creation of a statewide tracking system to keep a record of DNA of perpetrators. This tracking system will require full participation from law enforcement agencies in the state and an annual report of the status of CODIS hits for accountability and transparency.
Reporting on outstanding CODIS hits may help identify whether investigatory leads are being tracked and addressed. Avoid characterizing the law as creating a new statewide DNA database or giving survivors a new evidence-collection process.

Act 892 – Prohibits using artificial intelligence to create child sexual-abuse materials. It took effect August 1, 2026.

The law addresses the use of AI to generate exploitative depictions of children. Louisiana law already prohibited producing, distributing, promoting, advertising, possessing, or possessing with intent to distribute CSAM; the 2026 changes specifically address AI-related conduct and depictions.

Act 211 -Prohibits using an image of a child under age 17, when the image was created, with the intent to train an artificial-intelligence model to produce child sexual-abuse materials. This also includes any kind of image of a child, regardless of whether the image is of a real person or not.
The law targets the misuse of children’s images in the creation of AI systems intended to generate CSAM. It also operates alongside Louisiana’s definition of CSAM, which inclu