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LouisianaHB 9782026 Regular SessionHouse

INDIGENT DEFENSE: Changes the municipality threshold relative to the mandatory assessment and remittance of special costs to the district indigent defender fund

Sponsored By: Jeremy LaCombe (Republican)

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Judiciary BAdministration of Criminal Justice

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

More mayors’ courts exempt from defense payments

Louisiana raises the population cutoff for mayors’ courts exempt from sending the $45 court cost to indigent defense funds. The cutoff rises from fewer than 5,000 residents to fewer than 9,000; Jonesville and Plaquemine remain separately exempt. The general rule covers state and local offenses, except parking violations. The cost applies after conviction at trial, a guilty or no-contest plea, or bond forfeiture, alongside other charges. This change concerns court payments to the fund; it does not itself remove charges for defendants.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Jeremy LaCombe

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 139 • No: 2

Senate vote • 5/26/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 35 • No: 0

House vote • 4/29/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 92 • No: 2

House vote • 4/23/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 12 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Becomes Act No. 930 without the Governor's signature.

    6/23/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/23/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/28/2026House

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

    5/27/2026House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/27/2026Senate

  6. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/26/2026Senate

  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/26/2026House

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

    5/20/2026Senate

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

    5/19/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/18/2026Senate

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

    5/4/2026Senate

  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/29/2026House

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

    4/29/2026Senate

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

    4/27/2026House

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

    4/27/2026House

  16. Reported with amendments (12-0).

    4/23/2026House

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

    3/18/2026House

  18. Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

    3/17/2026House

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