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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana reduces Domestic Violence Prevention Commission membership from 20 to 19 members
Last action · May 11, 2026: Effective date: 08/01/2026.Sponsor: Kellee Dickerson
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What This Bill Does
Louisiana reduces the total membership of the Domestic Violence Prevention Commission from 20 to 19 members, effective August 1, 2026.
Changes the governing composition of a state-level safety commission by removing one designated commission seat.
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Domestic Violence Prevention Commission
The total membership count and composition rules of the commission are altered.
Key Facts
- The total membership of the Domestic Violence Prevention Commission is reduced from twenty to nineteen members.
- The number of specified commission members is reduced from eighteen to seventeen.
- R.S. 46:2146(A)(1)(p) is repealed in its entirety.
- The act becomes effective on August 1, 2026.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
20 actions- May 11, 2026HouseEnrolledSigned by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 53.
- May 11, 2026HouseEffective date: 08/01/2026.
- May 7, 2026SenateEnrolledSigned by the President of the Senate.
- May 7, 2026HouseSent to the Governor for executive approval.
- May 6, 2026HouseReceived from the Senate without amendments.
- May 6, 2026HouseEnrolledEnrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
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- May 5, 2026SenateFloorRead by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
- Apr 27, 2026SenateFloorReported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- Apr 22, 2026SenateIntroducedRead by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- Apr 21, 2026SenateCommitteeReported favorably.
- Mar 25, 2026SenateCommitteeRead second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B.
- Mar 24, 2026HouseFloorRead third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
- Mar 24, 2026SenateReceived in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- Mar 23, 2026HouseFloorRead by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- Mar 23, 2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 03/24/2026.
- Mar 18, 2026HouseReported with amendments (10-0).
- Mar 9, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
- Feb 13, 2026HousePrefiled.
- Feb 13, 2026HouseCommitteeUnder the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
- Feb 13, 2026HouseFirst appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/13/2026.
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