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LouisianaHB 2962026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

CORRECTIONS: Repeals the Reentry Advisory Council and Offender Rehabilitation Workforce Development Act (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF RV)

Sponsored By: Alonzo L. Knox (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary BAdministration of Criminal Justice

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

4 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.

Extra parole-date credit for work-release participants

Eligible offenders in a workforce-development work-release program can earn 180 extra days of credit toward their projected good-time parole supervision date. They must participate in the program and meet the existing eligibility rules for this credit. The law removes the reference tying the program to the repealed workforce-development act.

Broader hiring tax credit for businesses

The law keeps a Louisiana income-tax credit for businesses hiring eligible work-release participants and removes a former reentry eligibility requirement. Businesses must owe Louisiana income tax and participate in a qualifying work-release program under R.S. 15:711 or 15:1111. Hired inmates or former inmates must be eligible for and actively participating in one of those programs. The credit is nonrefundable, so it does not provide a refund beyond tax owed. The supplied text does not state the credit amount.

Violent charges block sentencing-program recommendations

Defendants cannot be recommended for the workforce-development sentencing program while another criminal case alleging a crime of violence is pending. A pending allegation is enough; a finding of guilt is not required. The law removes the former exception to this bar.

Louisiana ends its reentry workforce framework

The law repeals the Reentry Advisory Council and the Offender Rehabilitation Workforce Development Act. It ends their legal framework and removes related program references and participation criteria. This affects inmates and former inmates who used or qualified for services under that framework. The repeal does not end every work-release program.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 140 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/18/2026

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 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 98 • No: 0

House vote • 3/31/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 10 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 297.

    5/22/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/22/2026House

  3. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/19/2026House

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

    5/19/2026House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/19/2026Senate

  6. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/19/2026House

  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.

    5/18/2026Senate

  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 98, 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    4/1/2026House

  16. Reported favorably (10-0).

    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 2/27/2026.

    2/27/2026House

  19. Prefiled.

    2/24/2026House

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

    2/24/2026House

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