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Louisiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 394: CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to procedures in capital cases

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 394 is a bill introduced in the Louisiana House on April 3, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to procedures in capital cases. Primary sponsor: Nicky Muscarello (Republican). It lists 2 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (June 8, 2025): Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 193.

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Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1 · Republican 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Nicky MuscarelloPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse86
Regina BarrowCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate15
Valarie HodgesCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate13

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 193.
  2. Effective date: 06/08/2025.
  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
  4. Signed by the President of the Senate.
  5. Received from the Senate without amendments.
  6. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
  7. Read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 11 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
  8. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
  9. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
  10. Reported favorably.
  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.
  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 75, nays 20. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Showing 12 most recent of 19 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source