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LouisianaHB 1642026 Regular SessionHouse

COURTS/COMMISSIONERS: Provides for the powers and duties of the commissioner in the 15th Judicial District Court (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)

Sponsored By: Troy Jude Hebert (Republican)

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Commissioner gains power to grant court protection

In Louisiana’s Fifteenth Judicial District Court, the commissioner can act on requests for protective orders, including domestic-violence cases. The commissioner can issue temporary protective and restraining orders that remain in place until hearings can be held. The commissioner can hold those hearings and recommend preliminary or permanent injunctions to a judge for action. The commissioner can also perform marriages and qualify trial jurors. These powers follow court rules and do not reduce elected judges’ authority.

Commissioner handles more criminal case steps

In the Fifteenth Judicial District Court, the commissioner can handle misdemeanor and felony cases through arraignment. The commissioner must review probable-cause affidavits within 48 hours after warrantless arrests and can hold 72-hour hearings. The commissioner can set bail, hold bail hearings, and supervise release or probation conditions, including domestic-violence protections. The commissioner cannot accept no-contest pleas at misdemeanor or felony arraignments. For Title 32 traffic offenses, the commissioner can recommend a plea for district-court approval after an on-record waiver of trial before a district judge. Extradition waivers require the defendant’s written consent and express waiver of a district-court extradition hearing.

Commissioner hears more civil and family cases

In the Fifteenth Judicial District Court, the commissioner can hold assigned civil and family hearings and trials. Parties can consent in writing to the commissioner deciding their case; a district judge signs the resulting judgment. The clerk must explain this consent option at initial filing. A missing written consent does not invalidate a proceeding when consent otherwise exists. Without consent, judges can assign hearings or trials to the commissioner, who files proposed findings and recommendations and mails copies to parties. Parties have 10 days after service to object in writing. A district judge reviews challenged matters anew and can accept, reject, change, or return the recommendations for further work. Parties keep the same appeal rights as in other district court cases.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Troy Jude Hebert

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 143 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/5/2026

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 • 3/26/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 90 • No: 0

House vote • 3/23/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 17 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Becomes Act No. 195 without the Governor's signature.

    5/15/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/15/2026House

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/7/2026Senate

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/7/2026House

  5. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/6/2026House

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

    5/6/2026House

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

    5/5/2026Senate

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

    4/27/2026Senate

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

    4/22/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    4/21/2026Senate

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

    3/31/2026Senate

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

    3/30/2026Senate

  13. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    3/26/2026House

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 03/26/2026.

    3/25/2026House

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

    3/24/2026House

  16. Reported favorably (17-0).

    3/23/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

  18. Prefiled.

    2/13/2026House

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

    2/13/2026House

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

    2/13/2026House

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