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LouisianaSB 3972026 Regular SessionSenate

ELECTED OFFICIALS: Provides for vacancies caused by retirement, resignation, or removal from elected office. (8/1/26)

Sponsored By: Mike Reese (Republican)

Signed by Governor

House and Governmental AffairsSenate and Governmental Affairs

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

New office return limits and judge exceptions

Beginning August 1, 2026, Louisiana bars elected officials who retire, resign, or are removed from returning to that same office. They cannot be appointed to it or qualify to run for it. Judgeships are exempt from the separate vacancy restrictions in subsection A of the existing law. The Louisiana Supreme Court keeps its constitutional power to appoint a sitting or retired judge to any court.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Mike Reese

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 137 • No: 0

House vote • 5/7/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 92 • No: 0

House vote • 4/23/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 10 • No: 0

Senate vote • 3/23/2026

Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 35 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 262.

    5/15/2026Senate

  2. Effective date 8/1/2026.

    5/15/2026Senate

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

    5/13/2026Senate

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

    5/12/2026Senate

  5. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/12/2026House

  6. Received from the House without amendments.

    5/11/2026Senate

  7. Called from the calendar.

    5/7/2026House

  8. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    5/7/2026House

  9. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    5/6/2026House

  10. Notice given.

    5/6/2026House

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

    5/6/2026House

  12. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2026.

    5/5/2026House

  13. Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.

    4/28/2026House

  14. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    4/27/2026House

  15. Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    4/23/2026House

  16. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.

    3/25/2026House

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

    3/24/2026House

  18. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    3/23/2026Senate

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

    3/16/2026Senate

  20. Reported favorably.

    3/11/2026Senate

  21. Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs.

    3/9/2026Senate

  22. Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs.

    2/27/2026Senate

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