2026 Regular Session
HB1238
Enacts the Louisiana Behind the Counter Protection Act (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Legislative progress
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This summary includes only completed milestones supported by recorded actions. It does not predict the next step, and it preserves later committee reassignments, concurrence, conference, veto, and approval actions when they occur.
Recorded floor votes
2 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.
April 20, 2026 · House
House Vote on HB 1238 FINAL PASSAGE (#595)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
95 yea–0 nay · 10 absent
May 13, 2026 · Senate
Senate Vote on HB 1238 FINAL PASSAGE (#872)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
29 yea–1 nay · 9 absent
Committee referrals
April 21, 2026 · Senate
Labor & Industrial Relations
Instrument history
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This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.
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House Effective date: 08/01/2026.
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House Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 342.
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House Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
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Senate Signed by the President of the Senate.
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House Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
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House Received from the Senate without amendments.
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Senate Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. View roll call
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Senate Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
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Senate Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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Senate Reported favorably.
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Senate Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.
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Senate Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
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House Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. View roll call
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House Scheduled for floor debate on 04/20/2026.
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House Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
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House Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 422 reported by the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations (6-4).
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House Read by title.