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HB967 • 2026

PARDON/PAROLE: Provides relative to parole eligibility for certain offenders

PARDON/PAROLE: Provides relative to parole eligibility for certain offenders

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Pat Moore
Last action
2026-03-17
Official status
Pending House Administration of Criminal Justice - Considered 4/23/26
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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PARDON/PAROLE: Provides relative to parole eligibility for certain offenders

PARDON/PAROLE: Provides relative to parole eligibility for certain offenders

What This Bill Does

  • PARDON/PAROLE: Provides relative to parole eligibility for certain offenders

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-17 H

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

  2. 2026-03-16 H

    Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

Official Summary Text

PARDON/PAROLE: Provides relative to parole eligibility for certain offenders

Current Bill Text

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HLS 26RS-1613 ORIGINAL
2026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 967
BY REPRESENTATIVE MOORE
PARDON/PAROLE: Provides relative to parole eligibility for certain offenders
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 15:574.4(K), relative to parole; to provide relative to parole
3 eligibility for certain offenders; and to provide for related matters.
4 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
5 Section 1. R.S. 15:574.4(K) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
6 §574.4. Parole; eligibility; juvenile offenders
7 * * *
8 K. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, an offender serving
9 a life sentence for an offense committed on or before July 2, 1973, and for which the
10 offender pleaded guilty, shall immediately be eligible for parole consideration.
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 967 Original 2026 Regular Session Moore
Abstract: Provides relative to parole eligibility for certain offenders.
Present law provides for parole eligibility.
Proposed law retains present law.
Present law requires immediate eligibility for parole consideration for an offender serving
a life sentence for an offense committed on or before July 2, 1973, who pleaded guilty.
Proposed law amends present law to remove the condition that the offender must have
pleaded guilty. Otherwise retains present law.
(Amends R.S. 15:574.4(K))
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.