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LouisianaHB 10442026 Regular SessionHouse

DIVORCE: Provides relative to classification of separate property

Sponsored By: Jeremy LaCombe (Republican)

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Judiciary ACivil Law and Procedure

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Spouses keep unearned contract pay separately

The law covers employment contracts signed during a couple’s community-property period in Louisiana. Contract pay still unearned when that period ends belongs separately to the spouse who signed the contract. This includes qualifying amounts later paid as severance pay or liquidated damages. That spouse keeps the qualifying pay, leaving less shared property for the other spouse. The Legislature states its intent to overrule the 2025 decision in Orgeron v. Orgeron.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Jeremy LaCombe

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 138 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/12/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 34 • No: 0

House vote • 4/13/2026

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

Yes: 95 • No: 0

House vote • 4/7/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 9 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Becomes Act No. 405 without the Governor's signature.

    5/27/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/27/2026House

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/14/2026Senate

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/14/2026House

  5. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/13/2026House

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

    5/13/2026House

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/12/2026Senate

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

    5/4/2026Senate

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

    4/29/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    4/28/2026Senate

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

    4/14/2026Senate

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

    4/13/2026House

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

    4/13/2026Senate

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/13/2026.

    4/9/2026House

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

    4/8/2026House

  16. Reported favorably (9-0).

    4/7/2026House

  17. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.

    3/31/2026House

  18. Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

    3/30/2026House

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