SLS 25RS-374 ORIGINAL
2025 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 103
BY SENATOR SEABAUGH
LOCAL AGENCIES. Provides for term limits and qualifications for members of the Sabine
Parish Police Jury. (8/1/25)
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 33:1221.3, relative to police jury; to provide relative to the police jury of
3 Sabine Parish; to provide relative to terms and qualifications; to provide relative to
4 limits on term of office; and to provide for related matters.
5 Notice of intention to introduce this Act has been published.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 33:1221.3 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
8 ยง1221.3. Sabine Parish Police Jury; terms of members
9 Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no person who has
10 been elected to serve as a police juror in Sabine Parish for more than two and
11 one-half terms shall be eligible to serve as a police juror in Sabine Parish for
12 any term thereafter. The limit on the number of terms a member of the police
13 jury in Sabine Parish may serve shall be subject to approval of a majority of the
14 electors voting at an election held for that purpose.
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions. SB NO. 103
SLS 25RS-374 ORIGINAL
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Senate Legislative Services.
The keyword, summary, 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)]
DIGEST
SB 103 Original 2025 Regular Session Seabaugh
Present law (R.S. 33:1221) provides that police jurors shall serve four year terms.
Proposed law retains present law but provides that no person who has been elected to serve
as a police juror in Sabine Parish for more than two and one-half terms shall be eligible to
serve as a police juror for any term thereafter.
Proposed law provides that the limit on the number of terms a member of the police jury in
Sabine Parish may serve shall be subject to approval of a majority of the electors voting at
an election held for that purpose.
Effective August 1, 2025.
(Adds R.S. 33:1221.3)
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions.