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LouisianaHB 3512026 Regular SessionHouse

CORRECTIONS: Provides relative to the reentry preparation program (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsored By: Bryan Fontenot (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary BAdministration of Criminal Justice

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Louisiana removes part of prison reentry law

The law repeals one part of Louisiana's prison reentry preparation law. That part covered reentry programs and classes about starting a business. The available text does not show whether services expand or shrink. The law creates no new programs or funding.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Bryan Fontenot

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 150 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/26/2026

Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 38 • No: 0

House vote • 3/25/2026

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

Yes: 100 • No: 0

House vote • 3/18/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 12 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 544.

    5/29/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/29/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/28/2026House

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

    5/27/2026House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/27/2026Senate

  6. Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.

    5/26/2026Senate

  7. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/26/2026Senate

  8. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/26/2026House

  9. Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.

    5/6/2026Senate

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

    4/27/2026Senate

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

    4/22/2026Senate

  12. Reported favorably.

    4/21/2026Senate

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

    3/30/2026Senate

  14. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    3/25/2026House

  15. Called from the calendar.

    3/25/2026House

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

    3/25/2026House

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

    3/25/2026Senate

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

    3/23/2026House

  19. Scheduled for floor debate on 03/25/2026.

    3/23/2026House

  20. Reported favorably (12-0).

    3/18/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

  23. Prefiled.

    2/24/2026House

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

    2/24/2026House

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