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LA HB208
Bill
Status
6/8/2025
Primary Sponsor
Debbie Villio
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AI Summary
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Increases the required period without major disciplinary offenses from 12 to 36 consecutive months prior to parole eligibility hearings or release for intensive parole supervision, geriatric parole, life sentence parole, juvenile lifer parole, and veterans mentor program transfers
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Prohibits inmates sentenced as habitual offenders or for sex offenses from earning diminution of sentence ("good time") credits while in parish prison or state custody
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Eliminates earned compliance credits for parolees, removing the ability to reduce parole supervision time through compliance with parole conditions
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Creates a new alien removal process allowing deportation-eligible offenders (excluding sex offenders and violent criminals serving 10+ years) to be paroled directly to Department of Homeland Security custody for removal, with automatic parole revocation if they illegally reenter the U.S.
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Adds provision allowing offenders in custodial substance abuse treatment programs whose parole is revoked for technical violations to serve no more than 180 days
Legislative Description
Provides relative to eligibility for parole or diminution of sentence (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
CRIMINAL/SENTENCING
Last Action
Effective date: 06/08/2025.
6/8/2025