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LA HB208

Bill

Status

Passed

6/8/2025

Primary Sponsor

Debbie Villio

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • 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

  • 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

  • Eliminates earned compliance credits for parolees, removing the ability to reduce parole supervision time through compliance with parole conditions

  • 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.

  • 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

Committee Referrals

Judiciary C5/5/2025
Administration of Criminal Justice4/1/2025

Full Bill Text

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