HB 263 Louisiana 2026 session

COURTS: Provides with respect to the magistrate judge of the Fourteenth Judicial District Court and authority relative to specialty court programs

Status

  1. Introduced
  2. Committee
  3. Floor vote
  4. Passed
  5. Enacted

Enacted — last recorded action May 22, 2026

Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 295.

Recorded votes

FINAL PASSAGE (#877)

32 yes · 0 no · pass May 13, 2026

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FINAL PASSAGE (#526)

97 yes · 0 no · pass April 15, 2026

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Passage likelihood

Not enough recorded signal to estimate this bill's chances.

State-level impact

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Official actions

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 295.
  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.
  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
  4. Received from the Senate without amendments.
  5. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
  6. Signed by the President of the Senate.
  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
  8. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
  9. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
  10. Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.
  12. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
  13. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2026.
  15. Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
  16. Reported favorably (13-0).
  17. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
  18. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
  19. Prefiled.
  20. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
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