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Louisiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 81: PUBLIC MEETINGS: Provides criminal liability for certain violations of the Open Meetings Law

In committee 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 81 is a bill introduced in the Louisiana House on March 17, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: PUBLIC MEETINGS: Provides criminal liability for certain violations of the Open Meetings Law. Primary sponsor: Dodie Horton (Republican). Most recent recorded action (March 31, 2025): Withdrawn prior to introduction.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Dodie HortonPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse9

“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. Withdrawn prior to introduction.
  2. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/21/2025.
  3. Prefiled.
  4. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.

Sources

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