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LouisianaHB 4572026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

HOMELESS: Establishes minimum housing standards for individuals experiencing homelessness (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

Sponsored By: Alonzo L. Knox (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Health and Welfare

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

New housing standards for Louisiana homeless shelters

Louisiana’s health department must set minimum housing standards with input from the state fire marshal. They cover homeless facilities receiving state or local money, including emergency shelters, community facilities, unlicensed group homes, and halfway houses. Standards must address safety, cleanliness, privacy, and livable conditions, guide local and parish approvals, and not conflict with federal law. The fire marshal may conduct annual safety and sanitation inspections, but inspections are not required. The law defines homelessness as lacking a fixed, regular, adequate nighttime home and mainly sleeping somewhere not meant for habitation. Covered facilities primarily provide overnight lodging, temporary housing, or residential services to people experiencing homelessness. Exclusions include private homes, including sober living houses, that are not operated as homeless facilities. Exclusively charitable places of worship providing only free emergency or transitional housing are also excluded. Other exclusions cover charitable substance-abuse recovery programs and temporary housing for people displaced by hurricanes or governor-declared emergencies. State-, local-, or court-authorized correctional, work-release, and reentry housing is excluded too. The health department must also study whether federal Medicaid waivers can fund healthcare and housing services for people experiencing homelessness. This study does not itself provide funding or new benefits.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • Aimee Adatto Freeman

    Democratic • House

  • Barbara Carpenter

    Democratic • House

  • Barbara Reich Freiberg

    Republican • House

  • Dana Henry

    Democratic • House

  • Roy Daryl Adams

    Democratic • House

  • Delisha Boyd

    Democratic • House

  • Doyle Boudreaux

    Republican • House

  • Edmond Jordan

    Democratic • House

  • Jacob Braud

    Republican • House

  • Jason Brian DeWitt

    Republican • House

  • Josh Carlson

    Republican • House

  • Kimberly Landry Coates

    Republican • House

  • Kyle M. Green Jr.

    Democratic • House

  • Peter F. Egan Sr.

    Republican • House

  • R. Dewith Carrier

    Republican • House

  • Stephanie H. Berault

    Republican • House

  • Steven Jackson

    Democratic • House

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

  • Vanessa Caston LaFleur

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 254 • No: 0

House vote • 5/29/2026

Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 95 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/26/2026

Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. 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 • 5/5/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 102 • No: 0

House vote • 4/27/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 19 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 805.

    6/9/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/9/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/4/2026House

  4. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/1/2026Senate

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

    5/31/2026House

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

    5/29/2026House

  7. Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.

    5/27/2026House

  8. Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. 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

  9. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    5/26/2026House

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

    5/25/2026Senate

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

    5/21/2026Senate

  12. Reported with amendments.

    5/20/2026Senate

  13. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

    5/7/2026Senate

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

    5/6/2026Senate

  15. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    5/5/2026House

  16. Called from the calendar.

    5/5/2026House

  17. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/5/2026House

  18. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2026.

    4/29/2026House

  19. Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    4/28/2026House

  20. Reported with amendments (19-0).

    4/27/2026House

  21. Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.

    4/9/2026House

  22. Reported with amendments (8-2-1).

    4/8/2026House

  23. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

    3/9/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

  25. Prefiled.

    2/26/2026House

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