JUVENILES: Provides for the governance of the Juvenile Justice District and adds Lafourche Parish to the Juvenile Justice District. (8/1/25)
SB 165 adds Lafourche Parish to Louisiana's existing Juvenile Justice District, changing how that administrative area is governed. The bill directly affects Lafourche Parish's juvenile justice system by bringing it under the same governance structure as the current district. It makes technical amendments to legal references (removing specific parenthetical sections) to clarify the district's boundaries but does not create new policies or alter juvenile justice procedures.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2025
Committee Review
Jun 2025
Senate Passage
May 2025
House Passage
Jun 2025
Signed into Law
Jun 2025
Introduced Apr 4, 2025
Signed Jun 20, 2025
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SB165 Act 435
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MINOR
The bill was finalized as Act 435, formally adding Lafourche Parish to the River Parishes Juvenile Justice District. This expands the district's jurisdiction to include Ascension, Assumption, Lafourche, St. Charles, St. James, and St. John the Baptist parishes. The act also updated the composition of the governing board, specifying that commissioners are now appointed by the sheriffs of the Twenty-Third, Twenty-Ninth, and Fortieth Judicial Districts, as well as the sheriff of Lafourche Parish, along with district attorneys and chief judges from the relevant districts.
Scope change
The bill's scope expanded to include Lafourche Parish, which was previously excluded from the River Parishes Juvenile Justice District.
SCOPE
Lafourche Parish was added to the list of parishes under the jurisdiction of the River Parishes Juvenile Justice District.
REQUIREMENT
The appointment process for the board of commissioners was updated to include the sheriff of Lafourche Parish and to specify appointments by district attorneys and chief judges from the Seventeenth, Twenty-Third, Twenty-Ninth, and Fortieth Judicial Districts.
The board of commissioners was reorganized to consist of fourteen members appointed by various judicial and law enforcement officials within the expanded district.
Floor votes · Senate May 13, 2025 · House Jun 8, 2025
How they voted
35–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 37
May 13, 2025
D
Democratic11
100% Yea
R
Republican26
92% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
34
Key actions
11
Committee
11
Amendments
2
Jun 12, 2025
Upper · Passed
Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
upper
Jun 12, 2025
Lower · Passed
Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
lower
Jun 12, 2025
Lower · Passed
Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 96, nays 2. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
lower
Jun 12, 2025
Lower · Passed
Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
lower
Jun 12, 2025
Upper · Passed
Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
upper
Jun 11, 2025
Upper · Passed
Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
upper
Jun 11, 2025
Upper · Passed
Senate conference committee members appointed: Miller, Allain, and Reese.
upper
Jun 10, 2025
Introduced
Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments.
lower
Jun 8, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 29, 2025
Introduced
Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
lower
May 28, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
lower
May 14, 2025
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
lower
May 13, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 7, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported with amendments.
upper
Apr 14, 2025
Committee
Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B.
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Greg Miller
RRepublican
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