Louisiana House Bill 660 raises district attorney and assistant district attorney state-paid salaries

Original title: DISTRICT ATTORNEYS/ASST: Provides for an increase in the dollar amount in warrants to provide for the salaries of assistant district attorneys (RE +$7,572,420 GF EX See Note)

Last action · May 20, 2026: Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.Sponsors: Peter Egan and 37 others

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What This Bill Proposed

Louisiana House Bill 660 increases the state-paid annual salary for district attorneys to $65,000 and assistant district attorneys to $60,000 beginning July 1, 2026, subject to a specific legislative .

Why it matters

State prosecutors' compensation is adjusted directly, altering state expenditures by over $7.5 million and changing the baseline pay rates funded through the state treasury.

Who It Would Have Affected

Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.

Directly affected

district attorneys

State-paid annual salary increases to $65,000 effective July 1, 2026, subject to appropriation.

Directly affected

assistant district attorneys

State-paid annual salary increases to $60,000 effective July 1, 2026, subject to appropriation.

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This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · passed the House · in Senate committee.

Procedural history

14 actions

May 20, 2026Senate
Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
May 20, 2026SenateIntroduced
Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
May 12, 2026SenateCommittee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B.
May 11, 2026Senate
Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
May 7, 2026HouseFloor
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
May 6, 2026HouseFloor
Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

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May 6, 2026House
Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/2026.
May 5, 2026House
Reported with amendments (19-0).
Apr 27, 2026HouseIntroduced
Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
Apr 23, 2026House
Reported with amendments (15-0).
Mar 9, 2026HouseIntroduced
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Feb 27, 2026House
Prefiled.
Feb 27, 2026HouseCommittee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Feb 27, 2026House
First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

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