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LouisianaHB 2432026 Regular SessionHouse

DISTRICT ATTORNEYS: Provides relative to the appointment of a substitute for a recused district attorney

Sponsored By: Roger William Wilder III (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary BJudiciary

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Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Attorney general now chooses replacement district attorneys

When a Louisiana district attorney is recused or voluntarily steps aside from a case, the judge must notify the attorney general in writing. The judge no longer has authority to appoint a replacement. Instead, the attorney general must appoint a staff member or a district attorney from another district. The replacement has all the recused district attorney’s powers in that case.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Roger William Wilder III

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 146 • No: 1

Senate vote • 5/27/2026

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 • 4/29/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 95 • No: 1

House vote • 4/23/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 16 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 630.

    6/1/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/1/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/29/2026House

  4. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/28/2026House

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

    5/28/2026House

  6. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/28/2026Senate

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

    5/27/2026Senate

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

    5/26/2026Senate

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

    5/25/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/21/2026Senate

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

    5/4/2026Senate

  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/29/2026House

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

    4/29/2026Senate

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

    4/27/2026House

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

    4/27/2026House

  16. Reported favorably (16-0).

    4/23/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

  18. Prefiled.

    2/20/2026House

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

    2/20/2026House

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

    2/20/2026House

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