Our Policy Victories

Since 2021, we have led or co-led campaigns to pass more than 25 bills in the Louisiana state legislature, as well as local initiatives. Our state policy victories, along with their bill sponsors and our key advocacy partners, include:

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• House Bill 535 (2025)by Rep. Mandie Landry 

  • Instructs Louisiana Legislative Auditor to conduct regular cost-benefit analysis of corporate and industrial tax incentive to to determine whether Louisianans are benefitting from each incentive. 

• House Bill 438 (2025) by Rep. Gabe Firment

  • Prohibits auto insurance companies from including advertising prices in monthly premium charges.​

• House Bill 588 (2025) by Rep. Shaun Mena.

  • Improves requirements for New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) Advisory Board.

• House Concurrent Resolution 52 (2025) by Rep. Marcelle

  • Requests that law enforcement improve crime reporting to the FBI’s National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS).

  • Requests that the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement study reasons for inconsistent or absent reporting, and provide suggestions for how to improve reporting.

• House Bill 457 (2025) by Rep. Marcelle

  • Improves access to educational materials and instruction for prisoners who are placed in segregation, also known as solitary confinement.

• Advocacy for safer roads/better road design as a way of lowering auto insurance rates

• House Bill 165 (2024) by Rep. Delisha Boyd

  • Remove incarceration as a possible penalty for possession of marijuana paraphernalia.

  • Partner organizations: Justice & Accountability Center of Louisiana, Marijuana Policy Project

• House Bill 544 (2024) by Rep. Delisha Boyd

  • Require more transparency and accountability at the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA), and increase worker and rider voice and power in RTA governance.

  • Partner organization: Louisiana AFL-CIO

• House Bill 954 (2024) by Rep. Shaun Mena

  • Remove the vague, undefined term “moral turpitude” from the list of reasons someone can be denied an occupational license.

  • Partner organization: Justice & Accountability Center of Louisiana

• House Bill 89 (2023) by Rep. Denise Marcelle

  • Require the Louisiana State Police to collect and publish traffic stop data.

• House Bill 447 (2023) by Rep. Vincent Pierre 

• • Require agencies that refer debt to ODR to provide more data/transparency.

  • Partner Organizations: Justice & Accountability Center of Louisiana 

• House Bill 286 (2023) by Rep. Delisha Boyd

  • Make it easier and cheaper for people with first-time convictions for simple marijuana possession to expunge those arrests from their records.

  • Partner organizations: Justice & Accountability Center of Louisiana, Marijuana Policy Project

• House Bill 129 (2022) by Rep. Richard Nelson 

  • Creates a 180-day grace period when someone misses a court date before the Office of Motor Vehicles can suspend their driver’s license, allowing them time to rectify their legal situation without automatically losing driving privileges.

  • Partner organizations: Justice & Accountability Center of Louisiana, Louisiana Appleseed

• House Bill 188 (2022) by Rep. Debbie Villio 

  • Require digital political ads to follow the same disclosure and honesty rules as other types of political ads (e.g., radio, TV, newspaper).

• House Bill 629 (2022) by Rep. Marcus Bryant 

  • Prohibit law enforcement from using marijuana odor as a pretext for searching someone’s home without a warrant. 

  • Partner Organization: Marijuana Policy Project

• House Bill 639 (2022) by Rep. Thomas Pressly 

  • Allow people with criminal records to ask an occupational licensing board if their record disqualifies them from obtaining a license before they begin their educational and/or licensure process, provide for individual consideration of applicants, and set up a framework that licensing boards can use to determine if a person’s conviction is related to the profession in which they are seeking a license. 

  • Partner organizations: Right on Crime, Pelican Institute, Justice & Accountability Center of Louisiana, Louisiana Budget Project, Americans for Prosperity–Louisiana

• House Bill 726 (2022) by Rep. Rodney Lyons 

  • Outlaw debtors’ prisons–prohibit the government from incarcerating people who are unable to pay criminal fines and fees, including for traffic violations.

  • Partner organizations: Justice & Accountability Center of Louisiana, Southern Poverty Law Center 

• House Bill 729 (2022) by Rep. Royce Duplessis 

  • Limit when media outlets can publish mugshots and require them to include a disclaimer that people are innocent until proven guilty when they do publish those mugshots; give people who haven’t been convicted of a crime, but whose mugshots have been published by extortive publications, the right to request that their mugshot be removed, and provide them with a cause of action to sue if those publications don’t comply with the request.

  • Partner organization: Justice & Accountability Center of Louisiana

• House Bill 746 (2022) by Rep. Royce Duplessis 

  • Set common-sense limits on the amount of time juveniles can be put in solitary confinement while in the custody of Louisiana’s Office of Juvenile Justice.

  • Lead organizations: Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights, Voice of the Experienced, Justice & Accountability Center of Louisiana 

• House Bill 775 (2022) by Rep. Cedric Glover 

  • Legalize marijuana paraphernalia for medical marijuana patients. 

  • Partner Organization: Marijuana Policy Project

• House Bill 988 (2022) by Rep. Mandie Landry 

  • Establish hiring rules and workplace protections for certain state workers who have medical marijuana recommendations.

  • Partner Organization: Marijuana Policy Project

• House Bill 652 (2021) by Rep. Cedric Glover 

  • Decriminalize simple marijuana possession (14 grams or less).

  • Partner Organization: Marijuana Policy Project