Louisiana 2024 First Extraordinary Session Status: Passed House Bipartisan · 20 D · 12 R cosponsors

HB 8 — REAPPORTIONMENT/JUDGES: Provides for the districts for election of the justices of the Supreme Court (Item #3) (EG1 INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Last action — Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

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    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
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    Passed House
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    Passed Senate
  5. 5
    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill died with 2024 First Extraordinary Session. It reached “Passed House” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there is no live prognosis. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

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Action History

  1. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

  2. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

  3. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

  4. Called from the calendar.

  5. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 10. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

  6. Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs.

  7. Reported favorably (13-0. To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.

  8. Rules suspended.

  9. Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

  10. Scheduled for floor debate on 01/17/2024.

  11. Prefiled.

  12. Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 32 co-sponsors · 114 not signed on · 8 voted No

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (32)

Not signed on (114)

114 members have not signed on to this bill.

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"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

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Votes

FINAL PASSAGE (#5)

Passed 94 Yea · 10 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 12200
Republican 55801
Democrat 27000
Total 941001
% of votes cast 90%10%0%1%
How each member voted (105)
Member Party Vote
Mr. Speaker — Yea
Emerson — Yea
Miller — Yea
Owen — Yea
Brown — Yea
Romero — Yea
Henry — Yea
Hughes — Yea
Landry, J. — Yea
Willard — Yea
Davis — Nay
Stagni — Nay
Johnson, T. — Yea
St. Blanc — Yea
Adrian Fisher Democrat Yea
Aimee Adatto Freeman Democrat Yea
Alonzo L. Knox Democrat Yea
Barbara Carpenter Democrat Yea
C. Denise Marcelle Democrat Yea
Candace N. Newell Democrat Yea
Delisha Boyd Democrat Yea
Edmond Jordan Democrat Yea
III, Ed Larvadain Democrat Yea
Joy Walters Democrat Yea
Jr., Kyle M. Green Democrat Yea
Ken Brass Democrat Yea
Larry Selders Democrat Yea
Mandie Landry Democrat Yea
Marcus Anthony Bryant Democrat Yea
Pat Moore Democrat Yea
Rashid Armand Young Democrat Yea
Robby Carter Democrat Yea
Rodney Lyons Democrat Yea
Roy Daryl Adams Democrat Yea
Shaun Raphael Mena Democrat Yea
Sr., Wilford Carter Democrat Yea
Steven Jackson Democrat Yea
Sylvia Elaine Taylor Democrat Yea
Tammy T. Phelps Democrat Yea
Tehmi Jahi Chassion Democrat Yea
Vanessa Caston LaFleur Democrat Yea
Barbara Reich Freiberg Republican Yea
Beryl Amedée Republican Yea
Beth Anne Billings Republican Yea
Brach Jerad Myers Republican Yea
Brett F. Geymann Republican Yea
Brian Leonard Glorioso Republican Yea
Bryan Fontenot Republican Yea
Chad Michael Boyer Republican Yea
Christopher Turner Republican Yea
Danny McCormick Republican Yea
Daryl Andrew Deshotel Republican Yea
Debbie Villio Republican Nay
Dixon Wallace McMakin Republican Yea
Dodie Horton Republican Yea
Emily Chenevert Republican Yea
Foy Bryan Gadberry Republican Yea
Francis C. Thompson Republican Yea
III, Roger William Wilder Republican Yea
III, Vincent E. Cox Republican Yea
IV, Gerald "Beau" Beaullieu Republican Yea
Jack McFarland Republican Yea
Jacob Braud Republican Yea
Jason Brian DeWitt Republican Yea
Jeffrey "Jeff" Fons Wiley Republican Yea
Jeremy LaCombe Republican Not Voting
Jerome Zeringue Republican Nay
Jessica Domangue Republican Yea
John E. Wyble Republican Yea
Joseph A. Orgeron Republican Yea
Josh Carlson Republican Yea
Jr., Dennis Bamburg Republican Nay
Jr., Jack "Jay" William Gallé Republican Yea
Jr., John R. Illg Republican Nay
Jr., Michael Robert Bayham Republican Yea
Kathy Edmonston Republican Yea
Kellee Hennessy Dickerson Republican Yea
Kim Carver Republican Yea
Kimberly Landry Coates Republican Yea
Larry A. Bagley Republican Nay
Lauren Ventrella Republican Yea
Laurie Schlegel Republican Nay
Les Farnum Republican Yea
Mark Wright Republican Yea
Michael "Gabe" Firment Republican Yea
Michael Charles Echols Republican Yea
Michael Melerine Republican Yea
Mike Johnson Republican Yea
Neil Riser Republican Yea
Nicholas Muscarello Republican Yea
Phillip Eric Tarver Republican Yea
Polly Thomas Republican Nay
R. Dewith Carrier Republican Yea
Raymond J. Crews Republican Yea
Rhonda Gaye Butler Republican Yea
Rodney Schamerhorn Republican Yea
Ryan Bourriaque Republican Yea
Shane Mack Republican Yea
Sr., Peter F. Egan Republican Yea
Stephanie H. Berault Republican Yea
Stephanie Hilferty Republican Nay
Timothy P. Kerner Republican Yea
Tony Bacala Republican Yea
Troy Jude Hebert Republican Yea
Wayne McMahen Republican Yea

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors HB 8?
HB 8 is sponsored by Tehmi Jahi Chassion (Democrat), Matthew Willard, Joy Walters (Democrat), Larry Selders (Democrat), Pat Moore (Democrat), Dustin Miller (Democrat), Shane Mack (Republican), III, Ed Larvadain (Democrat), Alonzo L. Knox (Democrat), Steven Jackson (Democrat), Jr., Kyle M. Green (Democrat), Brian Leonard Glorioso (Republican), Aimee Adatto Freeman (Democrat), Adrian Fisher (Democrat), Sr., Wilford Carter (Democrat), Robby Carter (Democrat), R. Dewith Carrier (Republican), Marcus Anthony Bryant (Democrat), Ken Brass (Democrat), Roy Daryl Adams (Democrat), John E. Wyble (Republican), Mark Wright (Republican), Rodney Schamerhorn (Republican), Candace N. Newell (Democrat), C. Denise Marcelle (Democrat), Rodney Lyons (Democrat), Foy Bryan Gadberry (Republican), Kim Carver (Republican), Josh Carlson (Republican), Beth Anne Billings (Republican), IV, Gerald "Beau" Beaullieu (Republican), Mike Johnson (Republican), and C. Travis Johnson (Democrat).
What is the current status of HB 8?
This bill died with 2024 First Extraordinary Session. It reached “Passed House” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
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