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IntroducedFeb 13, 2026
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Passed HouseApr 22, 2026
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Passed Senate
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Became Law
Louisiana House Bill
CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Creates a pretrial incarceration alternative pilot program in Caddo Parish (RE SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
Last Action See all actions
Senate • May 05, 2026: Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Senate Calendar: House Bills Reported by Committee
Position: 12
Summary
Comments on HB 159
Tweets
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Sponsors
Votes
YES: 90
- Phillip R. DeVillier
- Echols
- Mack
- Adams
- Edmonston
- Marcelle
- Amedee
- Egan
- Martinez
- Bacala
- Farnum
- McCormick
- Bagley
- Firment
- McMahen
- Bamburg
- Fisher
- Melerine
- Beaullieu
- Fontenot
- Mena
- Berault
- Freiberg
- Miller
- Billings
- Gadberry
- Moore
- Boudreaux
- Galle
- Murray
- Bourriaque
- Geymann
- Muscarello
- Boyer
- Green
- Orgeron
- Brass
- Hebert
- Owen
- Braud
- Henry, C.
- Phelps
- Broussard
- Henry, D.
- Sawyer
- Bryant
- Horton
- Schamerhorn
- Carlson
- Illg
- Schlegel
- Carrier
- Jackson
- Spell
- Carter, R.
- Johnson, M.
- St. Blanc
- Carter, W.
- Johnson, T.
- Stagni
- Carver
- Jordan
- Tarver
- Chassion
- Kerner
- Taylor
- Chenevert
- Knox
- Thomas
- Coates
- LaCombe
- Turner
- Cox
- LaFleur
- Ventrella
- Crews
- Landry, J.
- Villio
- Deshotel
- Landry, M.
- Wilder
- Dewitt
- Landry, T.
- Wright
- Dickerson
- Larvadain
- Wyble
- Domangue
- Lyons
- Zeringue
NO: 0
ABSENT: 15
Actions
- May 05, 2026 | Senate
- Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
- Apr 28, 2026 | Senate
- Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.
- Apr 27, 2026 | Senate
- Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- Apr 22, 2026 | House
- Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
- Apr 21, 2026 | House
- Scheduled for floor debate on 04/22/2026.
- Apr 16, 2026 | House
- Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- Apr 15, 2026 | House
- Reported with amendments (11-0).
- Mar 09, 2026 | House
- Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
- Feb 13, 2026 | House
- Prefiled.
- Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
- First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/13/2026.

