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LouisianaHB 492025 Regular SessionHouse

PARDON/PAROLE: Provides relative to the confidentiality of records from certain hearings of the Board of Pardons and committee on parole (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

Sponsored By: Michael Melerine (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary CAdministration of Criminal Justice

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

Private victim testimony, new penalties for sharing

At Louisiana pardon hearings, victims—or a deceased victim’s spouse or next of kin—can request a private session for testimony. This includes testimony responding to evidence or testimony offered by or for the offender. The law makes knowingly and intentionally obtaining and electronically sharing recordings of covered private victim testimony a crime. This covers audio, written, and visual recordings from Board of Pardons and parole committee sessions. Penalties include a fine up to $500, up to six months in jail, or both; contempt penalties may also apply. Defendants, their lawyers or legal representatives, victims, qualifying relatives, victims’ legal guardians, and others authorized by law can request and obtain copies. Sharing allowed by law remains permitted.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Michael Melerine

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Alan Seabaugh

    Republican • Senate

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

  • Bryan Fontenot

    Republican • House

  • Chad Michael Boyer

    Republican • House

  • Dennis Bamburg Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Dodie Horton

    Republican • House

  • Jeffrey "Jeff" Wiley

    Republican • House

  • Pat Moore

    Democratic • House

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

  • Thomas A. Pressly

    Republican • Senate

  • Tony Bacala

    Republican • House

  • Vanessa Caston LaFleur

    Democratic • House

  • Vincent E. Cox III

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 152 • No: 0

Senate vote • 6/2/2025

Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 39 • No: 0

House vote • 5/14/2025

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 94 • No: 0

House vote • 5/8/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 9 • No: 0

House vote • 4/23/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 10 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 128.

    6/8/2025House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2025.

    6/8/2025House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/5/2025House

  4. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/4/2025Senate

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

    6/3/2025House

  6. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    6/2/2025Senate

  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    6/2/2025House

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

    6/1/2025Senate

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

    5/29/2025Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/28/2025Senate

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

    5/19/2025Senate

  12. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    5/14/2025House

  13. Called from the calendar.

    5/14/2025House

  14. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/14/2025House

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

    5/14/2025Senate

  16. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2025.

    5/13/2025House

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

    5/12/2025House

  18. Reported with amendments (9-0).

    5/8/2025House

  19. Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.

    4/24/2025House

  20. Reported with amendments (10-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.

    4/23/2025House

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

    4/14/2025House

  22. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/14/2025.

    3/14/2025House

  23. Prefiled.

    3/10/2025House

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

    3/10/2025House

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