2026 Regular Session
HB708
Authorizes concurrent jurisdiction for justice of the peace and city courts in East Baton Rouge Parish
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.
Partner positions
Dislikes
GENERAL OBJECTION TO THE CREATION OF ADDITIONAL LEGISLATIVE CARVE-OUTS Our legislature should take a more practical and principled approach by adopting laws of general applicability rather than creating narrow statutory carve-outs tailored to individual jurisdictions. If a policy is appropriate for one municipality, parish or body, it should be made available statewide, allowing local governing authorities to determine whether and how it should be implemented within their communities. The continued proliferation of location-specific exceptions undermines consistency in the law and encourages piecemeal legislation rather than sound statewide policy.
Recorded floor votes
3 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.
April 29, 2026 · House
House Vote on HB 708 FINAL PASSAGE (#823)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
70 yea–22 nay · 13 absent
May 21, 2026 · Senate
Senate Vote on HB 708 FINAL PASSAGE (#1144)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
27 yea–8 nay · 4 absent
May 27, 2026 · House
House Vote on HB 708 CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1605)
Passed
87 yea–7 nay · 11 absent
Committee referrals
May 4, 2026 · Senate
Judiciary A
February 27, 2026 · House
Judiciary
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: 06/21/2026.
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House Becomes Act No. 950 without the Governor's signature.
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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 Read by title, roll called, yeas 87, nays 7, Senate amendments concurred in.
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House Scheduled for concurrence on 05/27/2026.
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House Received from the Senate with amendments.
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Senate Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 8 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 Judiciary A.
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Senate Received in the Senate. 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 70, nays 22. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. View roll call
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House Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2026.
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House Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
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House Reported with amendments (13-3-1).
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House Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
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House First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
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House Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
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House Prefiled.