Regular legislative session scores, 2025

The Louisiana Legislature Log presents (very belatedly, for reasons many readers can understand) its 2025 Louisiana Legislature scorecard. Twenty bills were selected and weighed for computation. These were chosen from the watch list compiled throughout the session, plus one that was similar to a watch list bill. For a bill’s vote to be selected, in one chamber there had to be more than one legislator not voting for the winning or losing side.

Being that passage of bills depends upon the seated membership of a body, not voting is counted as a negative vote. However, if a legislator had a leave of absence granted for that day, his absent votes weren’t counted for bills voted on that day and the score adjusted to take that into account. In the case of constitutional amendments, the governor’s score would be adjusted similarly, although none featured in this year’s scorecard.

Here are the bills on which the scorecard was computed:

Regular legislative session through Jul. 6, 2025

Bill disposition finally wrapped up, and the next publication of the Log will occur after a decision (very likely negative) on whether to hold a veto session occurs if negative (or a bit later if positive and the session comes off).

THIS WEEK FOR THE GOOD: HB 548 became law without the governor’s signature; HB 684 was signed by the governor; SB 245 was signed by the governor.

THIS WEEK FOR THE BAD: HB 313 became law without the governor’s signature.

Regular legislative session through Jun. 29, 2025

 A number of these actually were acted upon at the end of the previous workweek, but were not reported on the Legislature's web site until after Jun. 22.

THIS WEEK FOR THE GOOD: HB 206 was vetoed by the governor; HB 365 was signed by the governor; HB 371 was signed by the governor; HB 459 was signed by the governor; HB 526 was signed by the governor; HB 575 was signed by the governor; HB 691 was signed by the governor; HB 692 was signed by the governor; HB 693 was signed by the governor; SB 15 was signed by the governor; SB 100 was signed by the governor; SB 101 was signed by the governor; SB 117 was vetoed by the governor; SB 130 was signed by the governor; SB 179 was signed by the governor.

THIS WEEK FOR THE BAD: HB 540 was signed by the governor.

Regular legislative session through Jun. 22, 2025

Bills continue to be vetted by the governor.

THIS WEEK FOR THE GOOD: HB 425 was signed by the governor; HB 459 was signed by the governor; HB 554 was signed by the governor; HB 563 was signed by the governor; SB 8 was sent to the secretary of state; SB 151 was signed by the governor.

SCORECARD:

Regular legislative session through Jun. 15, 2025

Now it’s up to the governor to deal with bills, some of which on the list he has.

THIS WEEK FOR THE GOOD: HB 153 was signed by the governor; HB 206 with minor amendment passed the Seante; HB 289 passed the Senate and was sent to and signed by the governor; HB 293 with major amendment passed the Senate; HB 365 with major amendment passed the Senate, was rejected by the House, went to conference, was adopted by both chambers, and was sent to the governor; HB 366 with major amendment passed the Senate, was rejected by the House, went to conference, was adopted by both chambers, and was sent to the secretary of state; HB 371 with major amendment passed the Senate, was rejected by the House, went to conference, was adopted by both chambers, and was sent to the governor; HB 425 was passed by the Senate, concurred in, and sent to the governor; HB 459 was sent to the governor; HB 526 passed the Senate, was concurred in, and was sent to the governor; HB 548 passed the Senate, was concurred in, and sent to the governor; HB 554 passed the Senate, was concurred in, and was sent to the governor; HB 556 passed the Senate, was concurred in, and was sent to the governor; HB 575 with minor amendment passed the Senate, was concurred in, and was sent to the governor; HB 654 was signed by the governor; HB 684 was sent to the governor; HB 691 with minor amendment passed the Seante, was concurred in, and was sent to the governor; HB 692 was passed by the Senate, was concurred in, and was sent to the governor; HB 693 with minor amendment passed the Senate, was concurred in, and was sent to the governor; SB 8 with minor amendment passed the House and was concurred in; SB 15 was passed by the House, concurred in, and sent to the governor; SB 54 was signed by the governor; SB 58 was sent to and signed by the governor; SB 66 was signed by the governor; SB 81 was signed by the governor; SB 99 was signed by the governor; SB 100 passed the House and was sent to the governor; SB 101 was concurred in and sent to the governor; SB 117 was concurred in and sent to the governor; SB 118 was signed by the governor; SB 127 was signed by the governor; SB 130 passed the House; was concurred in, and was sent to the governor; SB 151 was sent to the governor; SB 179 passed the House and was sent to the governor; SB 245 with minor amendment passed the House, was concurred in, and was sent to the governor.

THIS WEEK FOR THE BAD: HB 63 with minor amendment passed the Senate, was rejected by the House, went to conference, was adopted by both chambers, and was sent to the secretary of state; HB 313 passed Senate committee, passed the House, was concurred in, and was sent to the governor; HB 540 with minor amendment passed the Senate, was concurred in, and was sent to the governor; SB 4 was signed by the governor.