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Louisiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 218: CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: Provides relative to post conviction relief for defendants convicted by a non-unanimous jury verdict. (8/1/25)

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

SB 218 is a bill introduced in the Louisiana Senate on April 4, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: Provides relative to post conviction relief for defendants convicted by a non-unanimous jury verdict. (8/1/25). Primary sponsor: Royce Duplessis (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (May 27, 2025): Reconsidered. Read by title; returned to the Calendar, subject to call.

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): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Royce DuplessisPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate5

“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. Reconsidered. Read by title; returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
  2. Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
  3. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title; failed to pass by a vote of 9 yeas and 26 nays.
  4. Notice of reconsideration on the next legislative day.
  5. Called from the Calendar.
  6. Senate floor amendments read and adopted.
  7. Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
  8. Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
  9. Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
  10. Reported favorably.
  11. Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B.
  12. Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.

Sources

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