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LouisianaHB 2752026 Regular SessionHouse

CHILDREN/ABUSE: Provides relative to the minimum sentencing for child domestic abuse convictions (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Sponsored By: Delisha Boyd (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary CAdministration of Criminal Justice

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Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Longer abuse sentences when children are present

Louisiana requires extra prison time for dating partner battery or domestic abuse battery when a child is present. The state must prove a child age 13 or younger was at the residence or another scene during the offense. The added hard labor sentence is one to three years for a first offense. For a second or later offense, it is three to six years, in addition to other penalties.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Delisha Boyd

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • Mark Abraham

    Republican • Senate

  • Regina Barrow

    Democratic • Senate

  • Valarie Hodges

    Republican • Senate

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 144 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/12/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 34 • No: 0

House vote • 4/14/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 100 • No: 0

House vote • 4/8/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 10 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 146.

    5/15/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/15/2026House

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/14/2026Senate

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/14/2026House

  5. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/13/2026House

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

    5/13/2026House

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/12/2026Senate

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

    5/4/2026Senate

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

    4/29/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    4/28/2026Senate

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

    4/20/2026Senate

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

    4/15/2026Senate

  13. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    4/14/2026House

  14. Called from the calendar.

    4/14/2026House

  15. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/14/2026House

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

    4/13/2026House

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

    4/9/2026House

  18. Reported with amendments (10-0).

    4/8/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

  20. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

    2/27/2026House

  21. Prefiled.

    2/23/2026House

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

    2/23/2026House

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