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LouisianaHB 1602026 Regular SessionHouse

DOMESTIC ABUSE: Increases the penalties for certain domestic violence offenses that involve strangulation (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)

Sponsored By: Alonzo L. Knox (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary CAdministration of Criminal Justice

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Higher prison penalties for domestic violence strangulation

The law increases penalties in Louisiana for domestic abuse battery or battery of a dating partner involving strangulation. The maximum sentence rises from 3 to 10 years in prison at hard labor. At least 1 year must be served without probation or a suspended sentence.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 162 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/26/2026

Rules suspended. 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 • 4/13/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 96 • No: 0

House vote • 4/7/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 17 • No: 0

House vote • 3/18/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 12 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 623.

    6/2/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/2/2026House

  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 37 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.

    4/14/2026Senate

  12. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    4/13/2026House

  13. Called from the calendar.

    4/13/2026House

  14. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/13/2026House

  15. Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. 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 reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    4/8/2026House

  18. Reported favorably (17-0).

    4/7/2026House

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

    3/23/2026House

  20. Reported with amendments (12-0).

    3/18/2026House

  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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