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Louisiana 2026

HB 251

CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides with respect to criminal resentencing

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  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 538.

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  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

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

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  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

  6. Rules suspended. 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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  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.

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  8. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

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  9. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

  10. Reported favorably.

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

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

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  13. Called from the calendar.

  14. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

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  15. Called from the calendar.

  16. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

  17. Notice given.

  18. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2026.

  19. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

  20. Notice given.

  21. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2026.

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

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  23. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2026.

  24. Reported with amendments (9-0).

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

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  26. Prefiled.

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

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  28. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/20/2026.

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