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Louisiana 2026

HB 159

CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Creates a pretrial incarceration alternative pilot program in Caddo Parish (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)

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Measure details

Jurisdiction
Louisiana
Session
2026
Chamber
lower
Classification
bill
Subjects
Not supplied
Introduced / first action
2026-02-13 00:00:00

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Actions

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 784.

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  2. Effective date: See Act.

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

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  4. Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.

  5. Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.

  6. Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.

  7. Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.

  8. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

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  9. Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/2/2026.

  10. Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.

  11. Scheduled for floor debate on 06/01/2026.

  12. Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.

  13. Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.

  14. House conferees appointed: Jackson, Villio, and Amedee.

  15. Senate conference committee members appointed: Jenkins, Morris, and Boudreaux.

  16. Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.

  17. Notice of Senate conferees appointed.

  18. Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.

  19. Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.

  20. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

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  21. Received from the Senate with amendments.

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  22. Rules suspended.

  23. Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.

  24. Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

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  25. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

  26. Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.

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  27. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.

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  28. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

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  29. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

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  30. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/22/2026.

  31. Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

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  32. Reported with amendments (11-0).

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

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  34. Prefiled.

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  35. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.

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  36. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/13/2026.

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