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LouisianaHB 1672026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

PUBLIC SFTY/CORRECTIONS: Provides for the issuance of certain documentation to inmates before their release from incarceration (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Sponsored By: Barbara Reich Freiberg (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary BAdministration of Criminal Justice

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

Released inmates get identification and job documents

The law helps people leaving felony imprisonment who name an intended Louisiana residence. They must be in state corrections custody and housed in a state prison. Corrections must check their identification with the motor vehicle office and start the special ID process at least nine months before release. Those without a current state ID or driver's license must receive a special ID at release. The motor vehicle office must accept a birth certificate copy together with the master prison record, which tracks sentences and release dates. The card lasts six years from its issue month and cannot be renewed or transferred. Driver's license rules govern issuing, replacing, canceling, and denying the card, and the motor vehicle office sets a reasonable issuance fee. Corrections may use inmate trust funds, existing department funds, and donations to cover program costs and card purchases. For qualifying inmates who receive the special ID, corrections must also provide education and training credentials and work records, if applicable. It must provide a birth certificate copy and a Social Security card or replacement if obtainable.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Barbara Reich Freiberg

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Emily Chenevert

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 235 • No: 0

House vote • 5/29/2026

Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.

Yes: 98 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/25/2026

Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. 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 • 4/29/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 91 • No: 0

House vote • 4/23/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 9 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 785.

    6/8/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/8/2026House

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/1/2026Senate

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/1/2026House

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

    5/31/2026House

  6. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    5/29/2026House

  7. Called from the calendar.

    5/29/2026House

  8. Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.

    5/29/2026House

  9. Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.

    5/27/2026House

  10. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    5/26/2026House

  11. Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/25/2026Senate

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

    5/20/2026Senate

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

    5/19/2026Senate

  14. Reported favorably.

    5/18/2026Senate

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

    5/4/2026Senate

  16. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/29/2026House

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

    4/29/2026Senate

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

    4/27/2026House

  19. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2026.

    4/27/2026House

  20. Reported with amendments (9-0).

    4/23/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

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

    2/20/2026House

  23. Prefiled.

    2/18/2026House

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

    2/18/2026House

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