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LouisianaHB 5462026 Regular SessionHouse

LAW ENFORCE/OFFICERS: Provides relative to the ability of peace officers to take a person into protective custody

Sponsored By: Annie Spell (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Health and Welfare

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

New limits on police protective custody

Louisiana peace officers can take someone into protective custody and transport them to a treatment facility for medical evaluation. They can act alone or with a trained emergency medical technician. The person must be a danger to themselves or others, or gravely disabled. Immediate custody must be needed to prevent a substantial risk of serious harm to that person or others. The officer or technician must base this belief on their own observations or credible, relevant information from another person. Officers must follow the law and existing department practices or procedures.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Annie Spell

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Adrian Fisher

    Democratic • House

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

  • Steven Jackson

    Democratic • House

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 145 • No: 2

Senate vote • 5/21/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 36 • No: 0

House vote • 4/7/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 97 • No: 2

House vote • 3/24/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 12 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 556.

    5/29/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/29/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/26/2026House

  4. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/25/2026House

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

    5/25/2026House

  6. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/25/2026Senate

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/21/2026Senate

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

    5/18/2026Senate

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

    5/14/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/13/2026Senate

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

    4/8/2026Senate

  12. Called from the calendar.

    4/7/2026House

  13. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/7/2026House

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

    4/7/2026Senate

  15. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    3/30/2026House

  16. Notice given.

    3/30/2026House

  17. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/07/2026.

    3/30/2026House

  18. Scheduled for floor debate on 03/30/2026.

    3/26/2026House

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

    3/25/2026House

  20. Reported with amendments (12-0).

    3/24/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

  23. Prefiled.

    2/26/2026House

  24. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

    2/26/2026House

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