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LouisianaHB 5522026 Regular SessionHouse

DWI: Provides relative to driving while intoxicated (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsored By: Marcus Anthony Bryant (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary CAdministration of Criminal Justice

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

Court costs cover alcohol-related impaired driving

The law includes impaired driving in rules for extra court costs tied to alcohol-related offenses. People convicted of felonies, misdemeanors, or local offenses involving alcohol must pay additional costs beyond other fines and penalties. Courts with a designated alcohol-offense division or section must assess the costs required by law. The supplied text does not show the amounts.

Impaired drivers face updated court rules

Louisiana explicitly includes impaired driving in its court rules for driving while intoxicated. City, parish, municipal, and district courts share authority over first and second offenses under state law or matching local ordinances. Local convictions, guilty pleas followed by sentencing, and bail forfeitures receive the applicable penalties and count toward prior offenses. Third or later offense charges must go to district court, where defendants have a jury-trial right; mayors’ courts cannot hear these cases. Courts can accept chemical-test records, including breath-device recertification forms, that follow state testing rules whenever intoxication or impairment is at issue. For vehicular negligent injuring or first-degree vehicular negligent injuring charges, an available verdict is guilty of operating a vehicle while intoxicated or impaired.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Marcus Anthony Bryant

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 377 • No: 0

House vote • 5/31/2026

Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.

Yes: 95 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/31/2026

Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.

Yes: 35 • No: 0

House vote • 5/27/2026

Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.

Yes: 97 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/21/2026

Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. 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 • 3/25/2026

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 • 3/18/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 12 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 812.

    6/8/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/8/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/2/2026House

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

    6/1/2026House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/1/2026Senate

  6. Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.

    5/31/2026House

  7. Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.

    5/31/2026Senate

  8. Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.

    5/31/2026Senate

  9. Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.

    5/31/2026House

  10. Notice of Senate conferees appointed.

    5/29/2026House

  11. Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.

    5/29/2026House

  12. Conference committee report received.

    5/29/2026Senate

  13. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/31/2026.

    5/29/2026House

  14. House conferees appointed: Bryant, Villio, and Bacala.

    5/28/2026House

  15. Senate conference committee members appointed: Myers, Cloud, and Kleinpeter.

    5/28/2026Senate

  16. Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.

    5/28/2026Senate

  17. Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.

    5/27/2026House

  18. Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.

    5/27/2026Senate

  19. Scheduled for concurrence on 05/27/2026.

    5/26/2026House

  20. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    5/25/2026House

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

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

    5/14/2026Senate

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

    5/13/2026Senate

  24. Reported favorably.

    5/12/2026Senate

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

    3/31/2026Senate

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