2026 Regular Session
HB76
Provides relative to notification of inmates released from a parish prison or jail or state correctional facility (EN NO IMPACT 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.
Partner positions
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TRANSPARENCY: This measure promotes transparency and public safety by requiring immediate notification when an inmate is improperly released. Victims, witnesses, and law enforcement deserve prompt notice so they can take appropriate precautions and respond quickly to the situation.
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 14, 2026 · House
House Vote on HB 76 FINAL PASSAGE (#475)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
91 yea–0 nay · 14 absent
May 11, 2026 · Senate
Senate Vote on HB 76 FINAL PASSAGE (#731)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
34 yea–0 nay · 5 absent
Committee referrals
April 20, 2026 · Senate
Judiciary B
February 3, 2026 · House
Administration of Criminal Justice
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. 116.
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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 Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 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 B.
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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, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. View roll call
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House Scheduled for floor debate on 04/14/2026.
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House Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
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House Reported with amendments (10-0).
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House Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
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House First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/6/2026.
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House Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
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House Prefiled.