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LouisianaHB 592026 Regular SessionHouse

INDIGENT DEFENSE: Provides relative to the funding of the office of the district public defender in the 19th Judicial District Court (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

Sponsored By: C. Denise Marcelle (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary BAdministration of Criminal Justice

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

East Baton Rouge can fund public defenders

East Baton Rouge Parish can pay at least $1 million from its general fund to support its district public defender’s office. The office is entitled to an allowance for staff salaries and official expenses, including supplies, phones, transportation, travel, postage, and lodging. Parish money adds to state public defender funding and cannot replace it. The parish funding authorization ends July 1, 2028. This supports legal help for people who cannot afford a lawyer, rather than providing household payments.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • C. Denise Marcelle

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • Aimee Adatto Freeman

    Democratic • House

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

  • Barbara Reich Freiberg

    Republican • House

  • Beth Anne Billings

    Republican • House

  • Ed Murray

    Democratic • House

  • Gary Carter

    Democratic • Senate

  • Jay Luneau

    Democratic • Senate

  • Joy Walters

    Democratic • House

  • Katrina R. Jackson-Andrews

    Democratic • Senate

  • Mark Wright

    Affiliation unavailable

  • Michael Robert Bayham Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Peter F. Egan Sr.

    Republican • House

  • Rashid Armand Young

    Democratic • House

  • Regina Barrow

    Democratic • Senate

  • Rodney Lyons

    Democratic • House

  • Royce Duplessis

    Democratic • Senate

  • Sam Jenkins

    Democratic • Senate

  • Sylvia Elaine Taylor

    Democratic • House

  • Vanessa Caston LaFleur

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 142 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/27/2026

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 • 5/7/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 95 • No: 0

House vote • 4/15/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 11 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 611.

    6/2/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/2/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/1/2026House

  4. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/28/2026House

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

    5/28/2026House

  6. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/28/2026Senate

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

    5/27/2026Senate

  8. Called from the Calendar.

    5/27/2026Senate

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

    5/27/2026Senate

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

    5/26/2026Senate

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

    5/25/2026Senate

  12. Reported favorably.

    5/21/2026Senate

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

    5/12/2026Senate

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

    5/11/2026Senate

  15. Called from the calendar.

    5/7/2026House

  16. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/7/2026House

  17. Notice given.

    5/6/2026House

  18. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/2026.

    5/6/2026House

  19. Called from the calendar.

    4/29/2026House

  20. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    4/29/2026House

  21. Called from the calendar.

    4/27/2026House

  22. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    4/27/2026House

  23. Notice given.

    4/27/2026House

  24. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2026.

    4/27/2026House

  25. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    4/22/2026House

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