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LouisianaHB 12342026 Regular SessionHouse

CRIMINAL/PENALTIES: Provides relative to penalties for hit-and-run driving (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Sponsored By: Alonzo L. Knox (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary C

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Tougher penalties for hit-and-run drivers

Louisiana sets penalties for hit-and-run accidents that directly cause death or serious bodily injury. The base penalty is a fine up to $5,000 or 2–10 years in prison, with or without hard labor. This applies when drivers knew or should have known the harm occurred and their vehicle was directly involved. Two years must be served without parole, probation, or a suspended sentence; for pedestrian or bicyclist victims, at least two years. Drivers with qualifying convictions within 10 years face 5–20 years in prison if they knew or should have known their vehicle was involved or their driving directly caused the accident. Qualifying records include two or more intoxicated-driving convictions, or a conviction for vehicular homicide, vehicular negligent injuring, or first-degree vehicular negligent injuring. In these repeat-offender cases, pedestrian or bicyclist victims trigger at least five years without parole, probation, or a suspended sentence.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • Adrian Fisher

    Democratic • House

  • Aimee Adatto Freeman

    Democratic • House

  • Barbara Reich Freiberg

    Republican • House

  • Dana Henry

    Democratic • House

  • Delisha Boyd

    Democratic • House

  • Doyle Boudreaux

    Republican • House

  • Ed Larvadain III

    Democratic • House

  • Edmond Jordan

    Democratic • House

  • Jason Brian DeWitt

    Republican • House

  • Jeremy LaCombe

    Republican • House

  • Kellee Hennessy Dickerson

    Republican • House

  • Kim Carver

    Republican • House

  • Michael Robert Bayham Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Peter F. Egan Sr.

    Republican • House

  • Rodney Lyons

    Democratic • House

  • Stephanie H. Berault

    Republican • House

  • Steven Jackson

    Democratic • House

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

  • Vanessa Caston LaFleur

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 142 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/26/2026

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

Yes: 36 • No: 0

House vote • 5/7/2026

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 • 4/9/2026

Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 84 reported by the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice

Yes: 9 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 890.

    6/9/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/9/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/28/2026House

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

    5/27/2026House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/27/2026Senate

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

    5/26/2026Senate

  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/26/2026House

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

    5/21/2026Senate

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

    5/20/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/19/2026Senate

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

    5/12/2026Senate

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

    5/11/2026Senate

  13. Called from the calendar.

    5/7/2026House

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

    5/7/2026House

  15. Notice given.

    5/6/2026House

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

    5/6/2026House

  17. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    4/15/2026House

  18. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2026.

    4/14/2026House

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

    4/13/2026House

  20. Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 84 reported by the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice (9-0).

    4/9/2026House

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