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HB439 • 2026

PAROLE: Provides relative to parole ineligibility (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

PAROLE: Provides relative to parole ineligibility (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor
Jerome Zeringue
Last action
2026-03-09
Official status
Pending House Administration of Criminal Justice - Considered 4/14/26
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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PAROLE: Provides relative to parole ineligibility (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

PAROLE: Provides relative to parole ineligibility (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

What This Bill Does

  • PAROLE: Provides relative to parole ineligibility (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Draft

Plain English: HCAHB439 4825 3638 HOUSE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by House Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice to Original House Bill No.

  • HCAHB439 4825 3638 HOUSE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by House Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice to Original House Bill No.
  • 439 by Representative Zeringue 1 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 1 2 On page 1, line 2, delete "R.S.
  • 15:574.22," and insert "R.S.

Bill History

  1. 2026-03-09 H

    Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.

  2. 2026-02-27 H

    First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

  3. 2026-02-25 H

    Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.

  4. 2026-02-25 H

    Prefiled.

Official Summary Text

PAROLE: Provides relative to parole ineligibility (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Current Bill Text

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HLS 26RS-1292 ORIGINAL
2026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 439
BY REPRESENTATIVE ZERINGUE
PAROLE: Provides relative to parole ineligibility
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 15:574.22, relative to parole ineligibility; to provide a citation
3 reference regarding parole eligibility; and to provide for related matters.
4 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
5 Section 1. R.S. 15:574.22 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
6 §574.22. Parole ineligibility
7 No person committed to the Department of Public Safety and Corrections for
8 an offense committed on or after August 1, 2024, shall be eligible for parole under
9 pursuant to this Part except a person who satisfies the provisions of R.S.
10 15:574.4(B)(2), (D), (E), (F), (G), (H), (J), or (K).
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 439 Original 2026 Regular Session Zeringue
Abstract: Adds a reference to the parole ineligibility law to conform with present law.
Present law (R.S. 15:574.22) provides that no person committed on or after Aug. 1, 2024,
is eligible for parole except a person who satisfies provisions of present law (R.S. 15:574.4).
Proposed law adds a statutory citation to an exception that exists in present law (R.S.
15:574.4).
(Amends R.S. 15:574.22)
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.