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LouisianaHB 1682026 Regular SessionHouse

CORRECTIONS: Creates a transitional reentry program for female parolees (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Sponsored By: Barbara Reich Freiberg (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary BAdministration of Criminal Justice

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Analyzed Economic Effects

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

New reentry help for female parolees

Louisiana creates a structured program to help female parolees prepare for a safe return to the community. The Department of Public Safety and Corrections runs the program and decides placement. Women must qualify for parole consideration and have been granted parole. They must have served at least five years in actual custody. They must be within six months of their projected release date based on sentence reductions for good behavior. Neither their current conviction nor any past conviction can be a sex offense. They cannot have a parole denial in the past 12 months. They also cannot have committed a Schedule B major disciplinary offense during the 12 months before entering. Participation is voluntary, and women must agree to follow additional department screening, assessment, and eligibility requirements. Meeting these conditions does not guarantee placement. The program's placement rules apply despite conflicting provisions in the state's parole eligibility law. The law also repeals R.S. 15:828.4.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Barbara Reich Freiberg

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Adrian Fisher

    Democratic • House

  • Aimee Adatto Freeman

    Democratic • House

  • Barbara Carpenter

    Democratic • House

  • Beth Anne Billings

    Republican • House

  • Bryan Fontenot

    Republican • House

  • Roy Daryl Adams

    Democratic • House

  • Delisha Boyd

    Democratic • House

  • Edmond Jordan

    Democratic • House

  • Emily Chenevert

    Republican • House

  • Kathy Edmonston

    Republican • House

  • Kellee Hennessy Dickerson

    Republican • House

  • Ken Brass

    Democratic • House

  • Kim Carver

    Republican • House

  • Kyle M. Green Jr.

    Democratic • House

  • Marcus Anthony Bryant

    Democratic • House

  • Michael Robert Bayham Jr.

    Republican • House

  • R. Dewith Carrier

    Republican • House

  • Rhonda Gaye Butler

    Republican • House

  • Stephanie H. Berault

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 135 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/13/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 32 • No: 0

House vote • 4/8/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 95 • No: 0

House vote • 3/31/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 8 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 290.

    5/22/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/22/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/19/2026House

  4. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/18/2026House

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

    5/18/2026House

  6. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/18/2026Senate

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/13/2026Senate

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

    5/7/2026Senate

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

    5/6/2026Senate

  10. Rules suspended. Reported favorably.

    5/5/2026Senate

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

    4/13/2026Senate

  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/8/2026House

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

    4/8/2026Senate

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/08/2026.

    4/7/2026House

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

    4/1/2026House

  16. Reported with amendments (8-0).

    3/31/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

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

    2/20/2026House

  19. Prefiled.

    2/18/2026House

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

    2/18/2026House

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