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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana increases mileage reimbursement rates for jurors and jury commissioners
Last action · May 29, 2026: Effective date: 08/01/2026.Sponsors: Jason DeWitt and 1 other
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What This Bill Does
Louisiana House Bill 233 sets juror and jury commissioner mileage reimbursement equal to the rate in effect for state officials, replacing previous statutory ranges, effective August 1, 2026.
Jurors and traveling to court or meetings will have their travel mileage reimbursement tied directly to the standard rate used by state officials rather than a restricted statutory range.
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Jurors
Jurors receive a mileage reimbursement rate tied directly to the state official rate for travel to and from the courthouse.
Jury commissioners
Jury commissioners receive a mileage reimbursement rate equal to the rate for state officials for meeting travel.
Key Facts
- Juror compensation remains twenty-five dollars for each day of attendance in court.
- Juror mileage allowance is set equal to the rate in effect for state officials for each mile necessarily traveled in going to and returning from the courthouse.
- Jury commissioners are entitled to receive seventy-five dollars per day during actual attendance at meetings.
- Jury commissioner mileage is set equal to the rate in effect for state officials for each mile going to and returning from their place of meeting.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
28 actions- May 29, 2026HouseEnrolledSigned by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 536.
- May 29, 2026HouseEffective date: 08/01/2026.
- May 28, 2026HouseSent to the Governor for executive approval.
- May 27, 2026HouseEnrolledEnrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- May 27, 2026SenateEnrolledSigned by the President of the Senate.
- May 26, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
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- May 25, 2026HouseScheduled for concurrence on 05/26/2026.
- May 20, 2026HouseReceived from the Senate with amendments.
- May 19, 2026SenateFloorRules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
- May 13, 2026SenateFloorReported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- May 12, 2026SenateIntroducedRead by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- May 11, 2026SenateCommitteeReported favorably.
- Apr 22, 2026SenateIntroducedRead by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- Apr 21, 2026SenateCommitteeReported favorably.
- Mar 31, 2026SenateCommitteeRead second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B.
- Mar 30, 2026HouseCalled from the calendar.
- Mar 30, 2026HouseFloorRead third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
- Mar 30, 2026SenateReceived in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- Mar 26, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, returned to the calendar.
- Mar 26, 2026HouseNotice given.
- Mar 26, 2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 03/30/2026.
- Mar 25, 2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 03/26/2026.
- Mar 24, 2026HouseFloorRead by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- Mar 23, 2026HouseCommitteeReported favorably (16-0).
- Mar 9, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
- Feb 20, 2026HousePrefiled.
- Feb 20, 2026HouseCommitteeUnder the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
- Feb 20, 2026HouseFirst appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/20/2026.
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