HB 260 Louisiana House · 2025 Regular Session

CRIME/HOMICIDE: Provides relative to homicide (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

HB 260 is a procedural bill that names itself "The Segus Jolivette Act" and adjusts section numbering within the legislation. It does not change any substantive homicide laws or affect specific individuals or policies. The bill’s sole provisions are administrative: naming the act after Segus Jolivette (a person likely recognized for contributions to criminal justice) and correcting section numbering. This is a commemorative measure with no policy or funding changes.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
House Passage
May 2025
Senate Passage
May 2025
Signed into Law
Jun 2025
Introduced Apr 1, 2025 Signed Jun 8, 2025
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What changed between versions

HB260 Original HB260 Act · 3 edits
MINOR
The bill expanded the definition of second-degree murder to include killings that occur during specific violent crimes like resisting a police officer. It also created a new category of manslaughter for deaths resulting from the distribution of controlled substances that are subsequently passed on to another person who dies from them.
Scope change
The bill broadened the circumstances under which a killing is classified as second-degree murder and introduced a new legal category for manslaughter related to drug distribution chains.
SCOPE

Added resisting a police officer with force or violence to the list of crimes that constitute second-degree murder even without intent to kill.

Created a new manslaughter offense for when a drug distributor passes a substance to another person who then distributes it, and that second person dies from it.

DEFINITION

Renamed the act to "The Segus Jolivette Act".

Floor votes · Senate May 29, 2025 · House May 8, 2025

How they voted

350
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 37
May 29, 2025
D Democratic11
10 Yea 1
90% Yea
R Republican26
25 Yea 1
96% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
24
Key actions
4
Committee
5
May 29, 2025
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 21, 2025
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 20, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
May 8, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 29, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (11-0).
lower
Apr 14, 2025
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
lower
Apr 1, 2025
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
lower
1 primary · 46 co-sponsors

Sponsors