Commerce Committee
👤 Member House
📅 Not Scheduled
41 bills pending
Candace N. Newell — House District 99
🔵 Democrat
👍 0 Partner Likes
📜 23 Primary Authored Bills
🗳 1746 Individual Votes Observed
🏛 3 Committee Assignments
Voting Similarity
i
Compared only with current house members on explicit yes-or-no votes from non-unanimous roll calls. Louisiana's configured final-vote patterns retain substantive final action; procedural and unanimous votes are excluded. Each percentage measures agreement, and the shared-vote count shows how much common voting history supports it.
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D
Shaun Raphael Mena
95.4%
agreement
390 shared votes
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D
Ed Larvadain III
94.6%
agreement
407 shared votes
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D
Marcus Anthony Bryant
94.5%
agreement
417 shared votes
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D
Edmond Jordan
94.4%
agreement
377 shared votes
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D
Tammy T. Phelps
94.2%
agreement
377 shared votes
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D
Barbara Carpenter
92.5%
agreement
372 shared votes
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R
Beryl Amedée
28.9%
agreement
426 shared votes
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R
Rodney Schamerhorn
29.3%
agreement
423 shared votes
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R
Danny McCormick
32.1%
agreement
396 shared votes
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R
Raymond J. Crews
35.4%
agreement
393 shared votes
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R
Phillip Eric Tarver
40.1%
agreement
332 shared votes
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R
Les Farnum
43.2%
agreement
336 shared votes
Organization Alignment
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Alignment compares this legislator's explicit yes-or-no votes with each public organization's current bill likes and dislikes. Only Louisiana's configured substantive final-vote patterns count; procedural votes are excluded. The shared-vote count is the number of graded bills on which both cast a position.
Professional Association of Law Enforcement Officers
90%
9 of 10 shared final votes
Louisiana Right to Life
83%
5 of 6 shared final votes
AFA Action
75%
9 of 12 shared final votes
Pelican Institute
62%
23 of 37 shared final votes
Health Freedom Louisiana
60%
9 of 15 shared final votes
Louisiana Family Forum
57%
28 of 49 shared final votes
Citizens for a New Louisiana
38%
45 of 120 shared final votes
Louisiana Motor Transport Association
36%
4 of 11 shared final votes
Committee Assignments
House Committee on Judiciary
👤 Member House
📅 Not Scheduled
21 bills pending
House and Governmental Affairs Committee
👤 Member House
📅 Not Scheduled
38 bills pending
Primary Authored Bills
StateLens credits bill likes to the first-listed primary author. The activity pills below reconcile to this profile's partner-like totals.
HR395
Commemorates the ninetieth anniversary of the New Orleans Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
June 2, 2026Enrolled
HB133
👎 1
Provides relative to certain battery offenses against school employees (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
June 2, 2026Signed by Governor
HB1254
Provides relative to the New Orleans Regional Business Park
June 2, 2026Signed by Governor
HB822
Provides relative to nonprofit entities that appoint members to the board of commissioners of certain economic development districts
June 1, 2026Signed by Governor
HB362
👎 1
Creates the Regency Park Townhomes Crime Prevention and Security District in Orleans Parish
May 29, 2026Signed by Governor
HB283
Provides relative to incidents of assault and battery on students and school employees (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)
May 29, 2026Signed by Governor
HB705
Provides relative to contempt of the legislature
May 18, 2026Failed to Pass
HB122
👎 1
Provides relative to the Spring Lake Subdivision Improvement District in Orleans Parish
May 15, 2026Became Law Without Signature
HR3
Requests the Louisiana Housing Corporation to work in conjunction with the division of administration and the State Civil Service Commission to study the feasibility of creating a housing and rental assistance program using vacant state-owned property to support cost-burdened or severely cost-burdened renter households of state government employees (EG INCREASE SG EX See Note)
May 13, 2026Introduced in House
HB484
Provides relative to the New Orleans Regional Business Park
May 6, 2026Introduced in House
HR176
Commends Mable Harris Thomas on the occasion of her one hundredth birthday
April 24, 2026Enrolled
HR167
Expresses condolences on the death of Mable Harris Thomas
April 17, 2026
HR122
Commends Heaven Riley Breaux for being named Miss Louisiana Teen USA
April 17, 2026Enrolled
HR111
Commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of New Hope Baptist Church
April 10, 2026Enrolled
HB483
Provides relative to the Faubourg Marigny Security and Improvement District in Orleans Parish
April 1, 2026Pending: House Municipal
HB912
👎 1
Provides relative to cosmetology
March 9, 2026Pending: House Commerce
HB543
Provides relative to the homestead exemption (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)
March 9, 2026Pending: House Ways and Means
HB440
(Constitutional Amendment) Authorizes a parish governing authority to increase the amount of the homestead exemption (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)
March 9, 2026Pending: House Ways and Means
HB373
👎 1
Provides for the Louisiana Cannabis Pilot Program (OR INCREASE SG RV See Note)
March 9, 2026Pending: House Health and Welfare
HB323
Provides relative to notification and reporting procedures pertaining to inmate deaths (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
March 9, 2026Pending: House Administration of Criminal Justice
HB189
Provides supplemental pay for fire protection officers for the Lakefront Management Authority (OR +$32,400 GF EX See Note)
March 9, 2026Pending: House Appropriations
HB172
(Constitutional Amendment) Provides for supplemental pay for fire protection officers employed by an airport authority (OR +$316,800 GF EX See Note)
March 9, 2026Pending: House Appropriations
HB598
Requires a final decision rendered by a court to be binding on all courts of equal jurisdiction
March 3, 2026Introduced in House