HB111 • 2026

CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Provides relative to diminution of sentence for the earning of an associate's degree (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Crime Education

Enacted

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

Sponsor: Mandie Landry
Last action: 2026-04-30
Official status: Signed by the Governor - Act 28
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not specify if the additional credits are cumulative with those for a bachelor’s degree, only that they apply to an associate’s degree.

Reducing Sentences for Earning an Associate's Degree

This act allows prisoners to earn up to 90 more days of credit toward reducing their projected good time parole supervision date if they earn an associate’s degree from a regionally accredited and department-approved educational institution while incarcerated.

What This Bill Does

Allows prisoners who are eligible under the law to earn up to 90 more days of credit toward reducing their projected good time parole supervision date by getting an associate's degree from a regionally accredited and department-approved educational institution.
Updates Louisiana Revised Statutes section 15:828(E) to include eligibility for additional sentence reduction based on earning an associate’s degree.

Who It Names or Affects

Prisoners who are eligible under the law and earn an associate's degree while incarcerated.

Terms To Know

Projected good time parole supervision date: The estimated date when a prisoner can be released from parole based on their behavior and achievements in prison.
Regionally accredited educational institution: A school that has been reviewed and approved by an organization recognized for evaluating the quality of education provided.

Limits and Unknowns

The act only applies to prisoners who are already eligible under existing laws.
It does not specify how many prisoners will be able to take advantage of this new provision or what impact it might have on parole supervision dates.

Bill History

2026-04-30 H
Effective date: 08/01/2026.
2026-04-30 H
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 28.
2026-04-28 H
Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
2026-04-27 S
Signed by the President of the Senate.
2026-04-27 H
Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
2026-04-23 H
Received from the Senate without amendments.
2026-04-22 S
Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
2026-04-13 S
Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
2026-04-08 S
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
2026-04-07 S
Reported favorably.
2026-03-31 S
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.
2026-03-30 S
Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
2026-03-30 H
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
2026-03-26 H
Scheduled for floor debate on 03/30/2026.
2026-03-25 H
Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
2026-03-24 H
Reported favorably (12-0).
2026-03-09 H
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
2026-02-13 H
First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/13/2026.
2026-02-10 H
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
2026-02-10 H
Prefiled.

Official Summary Text

CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Provides relative to diminution of sentence for the earning of an associate's degree (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text

ENROLLED
ACT No. 282026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 111
BY REPRESENTATIVES MANDIE LANDRY, BOYD, BRASS, CARPENTER,
WILFORD CARTER, CHASSION, FREEMAN, FREIBERG, DANA HENRY,
TRAVIS JOHNSON, JORDAN, KNOX, LAFLEUR, LARVADAIN, LYONS,
MARCELLE, MARTINEZ, AND MOORE
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 15:828(E), relative to diminution of sentence; to provide relative
3 to diminution of sentence for the earning of an associate's degree; and to provide for
4 related matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 15:828(E) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 §828. Classification and treatment programs; qualified sex offender programs;
8 reports; earned credits
9 * * *
10 E. Offenders who are otherwise eligible under pursuant to this Section who
11 earn a bachelor's or associate's degree from a regionally accredited and a department-
12 approved educational institution while incarcerated shall be eligible to earn an
13 additional ninety days of credit toward the reduction of the projected good time
14 parole supervision date.
15 * * *
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.