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LouisianaHB 1152026 Regular SessionHouse

POLICE/MUNICIPAL: Provides for the abolition of the office of police chief and the police department in the village of Edgefield

Sponsored By: Dennis Bamburg Jr. (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Local and Municipal AffairsMunicipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Edgefield can change its police services

Despite conflicting laws, Edgefield’s Board of Aldermen can abolish the police chief’s office on the mayor’s recommendation. The change takes effect when the current chief’s term ends or the office becomes vacant, whichever happens first. For a temporarily appointed chief, a village ordinance sets the timing. If Edgefield also abolishes its police department under existing state law, the mayor and board can arrange outside police services. They can use a contract or cooperative agreement with a law enforcement agency or officer within Red River Parish. The law does not require an agreement, set its cost, or provide new funding.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Dennis Bamburg Jr.

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 144 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/19/2026

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 • 4/22/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 97 • No: 0

House vote • 4/16/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 13 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 420.

    5/29/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/29/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/21/2026House

  4. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/20/2026House

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

    5/20/2026House

  6. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/20/2026Senate

  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.

    5/19/2026Senate

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

    5/13/2026Senate

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

    5/12/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/11/2026Senate

  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs.

    4/27/2026Senate

  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/22/2026House

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

    4/22/2026Senate

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

    4/21/2026House

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

    4/20/2026House

  16. Reported favorably (13-0).

    4/16/2026House

  17. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.

    3/17/2026House

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

    3/16/2026House

  19. Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date.

    2/13/2026House

  20. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/13/2026.

    2/13/2026House

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