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LouisianaHB 1342025 Regular SessionHouse

COURTS/CITY: Provides relative to the marshal of the city court of Lake Charles

Sponsored By: Wilford Carter Sr. (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary BJudiciary

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Lake Charles marshal funds support deputy pay

The Lake Charles Ward Three marshal can place part of the marshal’s salary from civil-case fees into a special account. The account is in the marshal’s name and under the marshal’s control. It can support community policing, supplement deputies’ local-government pay, and cover operating expenses and other necessary office costs. Deputies must pay any additional payroll taxes due on their extra pay. No deputy’s salary can exceed the marshal’s salary.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Wilford Carter Sr.

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 243 • No: 0

House vote • 6/3/2025

Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 99 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/29/2025

Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 37 • No: 0

House vote • 5/8/2025

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 91 • No: 0

House vote • 4/30/2025

Reported favorably

Yes: 16 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 147.

    6/8/2025House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2025.

    6/8/2025House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/5/2025House

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

    6/4/2025House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/4/2025Senate

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

    6/3/2025House

  7. Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/2025.

    6/2/2025House

  8. Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/29/2025Senate

  9. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    5/29/2025House

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

    5/27/2025Senate

  11. Rules suspended.

    5/21/2025Senate

  12. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/21/2025Senate

  13. Reported with amendments.

    5/20/2025Senate

  14. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B.

    5/13/2025Senate

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

    5/12/2025Senate

  16. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/8/2025House

  17. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2025.

    5/6/2025House

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

    5/5/2025House

  19. Reported favorably (16-0).

    4/30/2025House

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

    4/14/2025House

  21. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/28/2025.

    3/28/2025House

  22. Prefiled.

    3/26/2025House

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

    3/26/2025House

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