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Louisiana 2026

HB 59

INDIGENT DEFENSE: Provides relative to the funding of the office of the district public defender in the 19th Judicial District Court (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

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Official record

Measure details

Jurisdiction
Louisiana
Session
2026
Chamber
lower
Classification
bill
Subjects
Not supplied
Introduced / first action
2026-01-30 00:00:00

Sponsors

Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 611.

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  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

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  4. Received from the Senate without amendments.

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

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  6. Signed by the President of the Senate.

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

  8. Called from the Calendar.

  9. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

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

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

  12. Reported favorably.

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  13. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B.

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

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  15. Called from the calendar.

  16. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

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  17. Notice given.

  18. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/2026.

  19. Called from the calendar.

  20. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

  21. Called from the calendar.

  22. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

  23. Notice given.

  24. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2026.

  25. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

  26. Notice given.

  27. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2026.

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

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

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  30. Reported favorably (11-0).

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

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  32. Prefiled.

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

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  34. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/30/2026.

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