HLS 25RS-924 ORIGINAL
2025 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 388
BY REPRESENTATIVE ILLG
Prefiled pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4)(b)(i) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
CORRECTIONS/PRISONERS: Provides relative to the amount DPS&C pays for the
housing of state inmates in a parish jail or institution
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 15:824(B)(1)(a), relative to the confinement of inmates; to
3 provide relative to persons committed to the custody of the Department of Public
4 Safety and Corrections who are confined in a parish jail or institution; to increase the
5 amount the Department of Public Safety and Corrections pays for the confinement
6 of persons in parish jails or institutions; and to provide for related matters.
7Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
8 Section 1. R.S. 15:824(B)(1)(a) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
9 ยง824. Commitment of persons to the Department of Public Safety and Corrections
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11 B.(1)(a) In the event any individual has been committed to the department
12 for confinement which is or has been delayed or prevented after final sentence by
13 court order restricting the department from institutionalizing the individual, or when
14 the individual is not institutionalized in a state penal or corrections institution
15 because of lack of facilities under the control of the department, or the department
16 otherwise refused to accept the individual for confinement, which resulted or has
17 resulted in the individual being confined in a parish jail or institution after final
18 sentence, or when he is being held in the parish jail without bail, pending an appeal,
19 or when he is a participant in a Blue Walters Substance Abuse Program by order of
20 a court in lieu of revocation of probation or by the committee on parole in lieu of
21 revocation of parole, the department shall pay to each parish sheriff, or to the
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1 governing authority of those parishes in which the governing authority operates the
2 parish jail, for keeping and feeding the individual in the parish jail the sum of
3 twenty-five dollars and thirty-nine cents per day for Fiscal Year 2019-2020, the sum
4 of twenty-six dollars and thirty-nine cents per day for Fiscal Year 2020-2021, and
5 each fiscal year thereafter thirty-five dollars per day for Fiscal Year 2025-2026, the
6 sum of thirty-seven dollars per day for Fiscal Year 2026-2027, the sum of thirty-nine
7 dollars per day for Fiscal Year 2027-2028, the sum of forty dollars per day for Fiscal
8 Year 2028-2029, and each fiscal year thereafter. Such daily sum shall be paid from
9 date of sentencing until the individual is confined in a penal or correctional
10 institution under the supervision of the department. The department shall work with
11 sheriffs, or the governing authority of those parishes in which the governing
12 authority operates the parish jail, to ensure that the basic jail guidelines are amended
13 by December 31, 2020, to specifically provide for treatment and educational
14 programming for individuals confined in a parish jail or institution.
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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 388 Original 2025 Regular Session Illg
Abstract: Increases the amount that the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections (DPS&C)
pays for the confinement of persons in parish jails or institutions.
Present law provides that the DPS&C shall pay $25.39 per day for the confinement of
persons in parish jails or institutions for Fiscal Year 2019-2020.
Present law provides that the DPS&C shall pay $26.39 per day for the confinement of
persons in parish jails or institutions for Fiscal Year 2020-2021 and each fiscal year
thereafter.
Proposed law increases the amount the DPS&C pays for the confinement of persons in
parish jails or institutions at the following rates for the following fiscal years:
(1).2025-2026: $35
(2).2026-2027: $37
(3).2027-2028: $39
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(4).2028-2029 and each fiscal year thereafter: $40
(Amends R.S. 15:824(B)(1)(a))
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