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LouisianaSB 1312026 Regular SessionSenate

ATTORNEYS: Provides for limitations on recovery of attorney fees and costs in occupational licensing board disciplinary hearings. (8/1/26) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV)

Sponsored By: Thomas A. Pressly (Republican)

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Licensed workers gain legal cost protection

Beginning August 1, 2026, Louisiana licensing boards cannot collect certain attorney fees and costs from licensees who win disciplinary cases. This protection covers only board costs incurred after the licensee makes a written offer of judgment—a formal settlement offer. A licensee wins if the case ends without an adverse finding or the final penalties meet the law’s comparison tests. Suspension or probation must be no longer than offered, and fines must be no higher. If suspension was offered, a final outcome without suspension also qualifies, even if it includes probation or a fine. For combined suspension and probation, one suspension day equals 15 probation days; the combined penalty cannot exceed the offer. This protection also covers boards exempt from disciplinary time limits and overrides agency rules or practices that provide less protection.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Thomas A. Pressly

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 146 • No: 1

House vote • 5/26/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 1. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 95 • No: 1

House vote • 5/18/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 15 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/5/2026

Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 36 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Becomes Act No. 939 without the Governor's signature.

    6/23/2026Senate

  2. Effective date 8/1/2026.

    6/23/2026Senate

  3. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/29/2026House

  4. Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate.

    5/29/2026Senate

  5. Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/28/2026Senate

  6. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 1. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    5/26/2026House

  7. Received from the House with amendments.

    5/26/2026Senate

  8. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/26/2026.

    5/25/2026House

  9. Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.

    5/20/2026House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/19/2026House

  11. Reported with amendments (15-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/18/2026House

  12. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce.

    5/7/2026House

  13. Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.

    5/6/2026House

  14. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/5/2026Senate

  15. Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.

    4/29/2026Senate

  16. Reported favorably.

    4/28/2026Senate

  17. Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.

    3/9/2026Senate

  18. Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.

    2/24/2026Senate

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