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LouisianaHB 1432026 Regular SessionHouse

SHERIFFS: Provides relative to the per diem rate paid by the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections for the housing of state inmates in a parish jail or institution (EN +$17,311,950 GF EX See Note)

Sponsored By: Tony Bacala (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary BAdministration of Criminal Justice

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2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Treatment and education standards for parish jails

The law required Louisiana’s corrections department to work with sheriffs and applicable parish authorities to update basic jail guidelines. The deadline was December 31, 2020. The guidelines must specifically address treatment and education programs for people held in parish jails or institutions. The law sets no funding amount and does not guarantee a specific service to each person.

Higher state payments for parish jails

Louisiana pays sheriffs or parish jail authorities to house and feed eligible state inmates, not households directly. Daily rates are $25.39 for fiscal year 2019–2020 and $26.39 for fiscal years 2020–2021 through 2026–2027. Beginning in fiscal year 2027–2028, the rate is $29.39 each year thereafter. Eligible inmates include those whose state placement is blocked by court restrictions, unavailable state facilities, or the corrections department’s refusal. Payment also covers people held without bail pending appeal and court- or parole-ordered Blue Walters Substance Abuse Program placements instead of revocation. Payments run from sentencing until placement in a state penal or correctional institution under the department’s supervision. The bill title reports about $17.3 million in added state general fund spending.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Tony Bacala

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Adrian Fisher

    Democratic • House

  • Aimee Adatto Freeman

    Democratic • House

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

  • Barbara Carpenter

    Democratic • House

  • Barbara Reich Freiberg

    Republican • House

  • Bryan Fontenot

    Republican • House

  • Chad Michael Boyer

    Republican • House

  • Roy Daryl Adams

    Democratic • House

  • Dodie Horton

    Republican • House

  • Doyle Boudreaux

    Republican • House

  • Emily Chenevert

    Republican • House

  • Jason Brian DeWitt

    Republican • House

  • Kimberly Landry Coates

    Republican • House

  • Peter F. Egan Sr.

    Republican • House

  • Rodney Lyons

    Democratic • House

  • Stephanie H. Berault

    Republican • House

  • Timothy P. Kerner

    Republican • House

  • Vanessa Caston LaFleur

    Democratic • House

  • Vincent E. Cox III

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 163 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/21/2026

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 • 4/13/2026

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 • 4/7/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 18 • No: 0

House vote • 3/25/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 12 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 530.

    5/29/2026House

  2. Effective date: 05/29/2026.

    5/29/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/26/2026House

  4. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/25/2026House

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

    5/25/2026House

  6. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/25/2026Senate

  7. 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.

    5/21/2026Senate

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

    5/18/2026Senate

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

    5/14/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/13/2026Senate

  11. Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.

    4/22/2026Senate

  12. Reported favorably.

    4/21/2026Senate

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

    4/14/2026Senate

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

    4/13/2026House

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

    4/13/2026Senate

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

    4/9/2026House

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

    4/8/2026House

  18. Reported favorably (18-0).

    4/7/2026House

  19. Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.

    3/26/2026House

  20. Reported favorably (12-0).

    3/25/2026House

  21. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.

    3/9/2026House

  22. Prefiled.

    2/13/2026House

  23. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.

    2/13/2026House

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

    2/13/2026House

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