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HB10 • 2026

FAIRS/FESTIVALS: Provides for the annual closure of the Acadia Parish Courthouse in recognition of the International Rice Festival

FAIRS/FESTIVALS: Provides for the annual closure of the Acadia Parish Courthouse in recognition of the International Rice Festival

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This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Chance Henry
Last action
2026-05-11
Official status
Signed by the Governor - Act 40
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Acadia Parish Courthouse Closure for Rice Festival

This act makes the Friday of the International Rice Festival a legal holiday in Acadia Parish, allowing the courthouse to close on that day unless there are election-related duties.

What This Bill Does

  • Makes the Friday of the International Rice Festival a legal holiday in Acadia Parish.
  • Allows the clerk of court in Acadia Parish to close the courthouse for this holiday.
  • Specifies that the courthouse must stay open if there are election-related duties on the legal holiday.

Who It Names or Affects

  • People working at or visiting the Acadia Parish Courthouse on the Friday of the International Rice Festival.

Terms To Know

Legal holiday
A day when government offices are closed and employees do not have to work, unless there are election-related duties that require the office to remain open.

Limits and Unknowns

  • It is unclear how this affects other businesses or public services in Acadia Parish.

Bill History

  1. 2026-05-11 H

    Effective date: 08/01/2026.

  2. 2026-05-11 H

    Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 40.

  3. 2026-05-07 H

    Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

  4. 2026-05-07 S

    Signed by the President of the Senate.

  5. 2026-05-06 H

    Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

  6. 2026-05-06 H

    Received from the Senate without amendments.

  7. 2026-05-05 S

    Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

  8. 2026-04-27 S

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

  9. 2026-04-22 S

    Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

  10. 2026-04-21 S

    Reported favorably.

  11. 2026-03-31 S

    Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.

  12. 2026-03-30 S

    Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

  13. 2026-03-26 H

    Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

  14. 2026-03-25 H

    Scheduled for floor debate on 03/26/2026.

  15. 2026-03-24 H

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

  16. 2026-03-23 H

    Reported favorably (17-0).

  17. 2026-03-09 H

    Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

  18. 2026-01-23 H

    First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/23/2026.

  19. 2026-01-15 H

    Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

  20. 2026-01-15 H

    Prefiled.

Official Summary Text

FAIRS/FESTIVALS: Provides for the annual closure of the Acadia Parish Courthouse in recognition of the International Rice Festival

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
ENROLLED
ACT No. 402026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 10
BY REPRESENTATIVE CHANCE HENRY
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 1:55(E)(1)(j), relative to legal holidays; to establish the Friday of the
3 International Rice Festival as a legal holiday in the parish of Acadia; to authorize the
4 clerk of court in the parish of Acadia to close the office in observance of the legal
5 holiday; to provide for exceptions; and to provide for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 1:55(E)(1)(j) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
8 §55. Days of public rest, legal holidays, and half-holidays
9 * * *
10 E.(1)
11 * * *
12 (j) In addition, in the parish of Acadia, the Friday of the International Rice
13 Festival shall be a legal holiday for the purpose of authorizing the clerk of court in
14 the parish of Acadia to close offices in observance of that day, unless there are
15 functions and duties related to an election that require the office to remain open.
16 * * *
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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