2025 Regular Session • Louisiana Legislature
HB479
Legislative Summary
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Bill History
4/4/2025
Prefiled.
House of Representatives
4/4/2025
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
House of Representatives
4/14/2025
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
House of Representatives
4/16/2025
Reported favorably (11-0).
House of Representatives
4/22/2025
Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
House of Representatives
5/19/2025
Reported with amendments (16-0).
House of Representatives
5/20/2025
Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
House of Representatives
5/20/2025
Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2025.
House of Representatives
5/21/2025
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
House of Representatives
5/27/2025
Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
Senate
5/28/2025
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.
Senate
Amendments
House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment #598 Horton Proposed
House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment #598 Horton Proposed
Not Adopted
House Committee Amendment #3072 APP Draft
House Committee Amendment #3072 APP Draft
Not Adopted
House Committee Amendment #3108 APP Proposed
House Committee Amendment #3108 APP Proposed
Not Adopted
Roll Call Votes
House Vote on HB 479 FINAL PASSAGE (#529)
5/21/2025
95
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
10
Absent
Result: PASSED
Status Information
Current Status
Engrossed(5/27/2025)
Chamber
Senate
Committee
Judiciary C(Senate)
Sponsors
Democrat: 17
Republican: 25
Primary Sponsor
Mandie Landry
Democrat
Co-Sponsors (41)
Tony Bacala
Republican
Delisha Boyd
Democrat
Chad Boyer
Republican
Ken Brass
Democrat
Jacob Braud
Republican
Marcus Bryant
Democrat
Rhonda Butler
Republican
Josh Carlson
Republican
Kimberly Coates
Republican
Vincent Cox
Republican
Jason DeWitt
Republican
Jessica Domangue
Republican
Kathy Edmonston
Republican
Peter Egan
Republican
Aimee Freeman
Democrat
Barbara Freiberg
Republican
Stephanie Hilferty
Republican
Dodie Horton
Republican
Jason Hughes
Democrat
Edmond Jordan
Democrat
Timothy Kerner
Republican
Alonzo Knox
Democrat
Vanessa Caston Lafleur
Democrat
Ed Larvadain
Democrat
Rodney Lyons
Democrat
Shane Mack
Republican
Denise Marcelle
Democrat
Michael Melerine
Republican
Pat Moore
Democrat
Candace Newell
Democrat
Charles Owen
Republican
Tammy Phelps
Democrat
Troy Romero
Republican
Annie Spell
Republican
Joseph Stagni
Republican
Sylvia Taylor
Democrat
Francis Thompson
Republican
Debbie Villio
Republican
Joy Walters
Democrat
John Wyble
Republican
Jerome Zeringue
Republican