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LouisianaHB 2082025 Regular SessionHouse

CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Provides relative to eligibility for parole or diminution of sentence (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Sponsored By: Debbie Villio (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary CAdministration of Criminal Justice

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Analyzed Economic Effects

7 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 3 costs, 3 mixed.

Longer clean records for parole eligibility

The law raises the required time without major prison discipline from 12 to 36 consecutive months for covered parole categories. This includes intensive parole supervision for habitual offenders and specified parole pathways for juvenile offenders and people serving life sentences. The clean-record period comes before release or the parole hearing, depending on the pathway. Age and offense rules still determine which pathway applies, including separate rules for first- and second-degree murder.

Some inmates lose good-time sentence cuts

Inmates in parish prisons or state custody cannot earn good-time sentence cuts if sentenced as habitual offenders or for sex offenses. The law also limits specified sentence-reduction eligibility rules from Act 7 of 2024. Those rules cover offenses committed on or after April 29, 2024, but before this law's effective date. The supplied text does not identify that effective date.

Treatment limits custody for parole violations

A person in a custodial substance-abuse treatment program faces a 180-day maximum for revocation over a technical parole violation. This limit applies to that treatment-related situation, not all parole revocations.

Veterans face stricter prison transfer rules

Inmates seeking transfer to the Post-Conviction Veterans Mentor Program need 36 consecutive months without a major disciplinary offense. The law raises this requirement from 12 months. The clean-record period must come before transfer.

New deportation parole with return-to-prison risks

Noncitizen inmates with a final removal order or Homeland Security detainer can seek parole solely for transfer and deportation. Sex offenses and violent crimes punishable by at least 10 years, life, or death are excluded. The governor and the conviction parish's district attorney must approve a hearing. Corrections must investigate and notify the district attorney, sheriff, and registered victims at least 30 days before the hearing. A three-member parole panel holds an expedited hearing and decides within seven days afterward; release is discretionary, with no statutory appeal. Approval means direct transfer to Homeland Security custody and suspension of the remaining state sentence, not release into the community. Failed or unavailable removal means return to state custody; corrections must issue return orders and a warrant for federal release without deportation. After deportation, the person must stay outside the United States, except for federally lawful reentry; later discovery or detention here automatically revokes parole and restores the suspended sentence.

Overlapping supervision, tougher penalties for reoffending

For crimes committed on or after August 1, 2024, release through good-time credits leaves the remaining sentence on unsupervised parole. For split sentences—prison followed by probation—probation starts at release, and unsupervised parole runs alongside it. A conviction for an offense committed during unsupervised parole triggers a tougher rule. Time previously cut through covered good-time credits must be served back-to-back with the new sentence, not at the same time.

Parole credits end, discharge becomes automatic

Parole lasts for the remaining sentence, without the removed credits for following supervision rules. Once that term ends, the corrections department automatically discharges the person from parole. The law also repeals a separate rule identified as covering credit for time served after parole revocation. The supplied text does not explain that repealed rule's details or its effect on an individual sentence.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Debbie Villio

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 211 • No: 30

House vote • 6/3/2025

Read by title, roll called, yeas 83, nays 11, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 83 • No: 11

Senate vote • 5/29/2025

Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 12 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 26 • No: 12

House vote • 4/30/2025

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 7. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 90 • No: 7

House vote • 4/16/2025

Reported favorably

Yes: 12 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 158.

    6/8/2025House

  2. Effective date: 06/08/2025.

    6/8/2025House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/5/2025House

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

    6/4/2025House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/4/2025Senate

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 83, nays 11, Senate amendments concurred in.

    6/3/2025House

  7. Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/2025.

    6/2/2025House

  8. Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 12 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/29/2025Senate

  9. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    5/29/2025House

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

    5/27/2025Senate

  11. Rules suspended.

    5/21/2025Senate

  12. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/21/2025Senate

  13. Reported with amendments.

    5/20/2025Senate

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

    5/5/2025Senate

  15. Called from the calendar.

    4/30/2025House

  16. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 7. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/30/2025House

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

    4/30/2025Senate

  18. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    4/24/2025House

  19. Notice given.

    4/24/2025House

  20. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/2025.

    4/24/2025House

  21. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2025.

    4/23/2025House

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

    4/22/2025House

  23. Reported favorably (12-0).

    4/16/2025House

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

    4/14/2025House

  25. Prefiled.

    4/1/2025House

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