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LouisianaHB 1612026 Regular SessionHouse

HUMAN TRAFFICKING: Provides relative to bail conditions for defendants alleged to have committed certain human trafficking offenses (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsored By: Shane Mack (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary CAdministration of Criminal Justice

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

Bail rules protect violence and trafficking victims

Louisiana courts must impose no-contact bail rules for defendants accused of covered violent crimes, human trafficking, or child sex trafficking. Defendants must stay away from the victim’s home or household, school, and workplace and avoid further contact. Courts must also ban electronic, written, and spoken communication with the victim and the victim’s immediate family. Communication with the victim requires the victim’s consent and a court-ordered exception. An immediate family member can request permission to communicate with the defendant; the court must approve contact with that person. These requirements add to other bail terms and apply despite conflicting laws.

Trafficking defendants face work limits on bail

Louisiana courts must bar specified work while defendants accused of human trafficking or child sex trafficking are on bail. Banned work includes rideshare driving, operating buses, taxis or limousines for hire, providing services inside homes, and operating carnival or amusement rides. Defendants also cannot sell goods or services as door-to-door solicitors, peddlers, or traveling vendors, or supervise or discipline children. They cannot run or help govern early learning centers, covered residential homes, or homes providing registered family or in-home child care. These limits add to other bail terms despite conflicting laws, restricting defendants’ work options while supporting protection of potential victims.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Shane Mack

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 144 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/11/2026

Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 35 • No: 0

House vote • 4/9/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 99 • No: 0

House vote • 4/1/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 10 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 131.

    5/15/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/15/2026House

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/13/2026Senate

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/13/2026House

  5. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/12/2026House

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

    5/12/2026House

  7. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/11/2026Senate

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

    5/4/2026Senate

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

    4/29/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    4/28/2026Senate

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

    4/14/2026Senate

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

    4/13/2026Senate

  13. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/9/2026House

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/09/2026.

    4/8/2026House

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

    4/7/2026House

  16. Reported with amendments (10-0).

    4/1/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

  18. Prefiled.

    2/13/2026House

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

    2/13/2026House

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

    2/13/2026House

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