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Louisiana 2026

HB 708

COURTS/JUSTICE OF PEACE: Authorizes concurrent jurisdiction for justice of the peace and city courts in East Baton Rouge Parish

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Official record

Measure details

Jurisdiction
Louisiana
Session
2026
Chamber
lower
Classification
bill
Subjects
Not supplied
Introduced / first action
2026-02-27 00:00:00

Sponsors

Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. Becomes Act No. 950 without the Governor's signature.

    became-law

  2. Effective date: 06/22/2026.

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    executive-receipt

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

    enrolled

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 87, nays 7, Senate amendments concurred in.

  7. Scheduled for concurrence on 05/27/2026.

  8. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    receipt

  9. Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 8 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    passage

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

    reading-3

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

  12. Reported favorably.

    committee-passage-favorable

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

    reading-2, referral-committee

  14. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 70, nays 22. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    passage

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

    reading-1

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

    reading-3

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

  18. Reported with amendments (13-3-1).

    committee-passage-favorable

  19. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

    referral-committee

  20. Prefiled.

    filing

  21. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

    referral-committee

  22. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

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