| Louisiana House of Representatives French: Chambre des Représentants de Louisiane Spanish; Castilian: Cámara de Representantes de Luisiana | |
| Legislature: | Louisiana State Legislature |
| Coa Pic: | Seal of Louisiana.svg |
| House Type: | Lower house |
| Term Limits: | 3 Terms (12 years) |
| New Session: | January 8, 2024 |
| Leader1 Type: | Speaker |
| Leader1: | Phillip DeVillier (R) |
| Election1: | January 8, 2024 |
| Leader2 Type: | Speaker Pro Tempore |
| Leader2: | Michael T. Johnson (R) |
| Election2: | January 8, 2024 |
| Leader3 Type: | Majority Leader |
| Leader3: | Mark Wright (R) |
| Election3: | January 8, 2024 |
| Leader4 Type: | Minority Leader |
| Leader4: | Matthew Willard (D) |
| Election4: | January 8, 2024 |
| Members: | 105 |
| Structure1: | Louisiana State House January 2024.svg |
| Structure1 Res: | 250px |
| Political Groups1: | Majority Minority |
| Term Length: | 4 years |
| Authority: | Article III, Section 3, Louisiana Constitution |
| Salary: | $16,800/year plus per diem. |
| Last Election1: | October 14 and November 18, 2023 |
| Next Election1: | October 16 and November 20, 2027 |
| Redistricting: | Legislative control |
| Session Room: | Louisiana House of Representatives.jpg |
| Meeting Place: | House of Representatives Chamber Louisiana State Capitol Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Website: | Louisiana House of Representatives |
The Louisiana House of Representatives (French: link=no|Chambre des Représentants de Louisiane; Spanish; Castilian: Cámara de Representantes de Luisiana) is the lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. This chamber is composed of 105 representatives, each of whom represents approximately 42,500 people (2000 figures). Members serve four-year terms with a term limit of three terms (twelve years). The House is one of the five state legislative lower houses that has a four-year term, as opposed to the near-universal two-year term.
The House convenes at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge.
See also: List of Speakers of the Louisiana House of Representatives. The Speaker of the House presides over the House of Representatives. The speaker is customarily recommended by the governor (although this is not in House rules), then elected by the full House.[1] In addition to presiding over the body, the speaker is also the chief leadership position, and controls the flow of legislation and committee assignments. The Louisiana House of Representatives also elects a speaker pro tempore to preside in the absence of the Speaker.
The current speaker is Republican Phillip DeVillier. His deputy is the speaker pro tempore, currently Republican Michael T. Johnson. The speaker pro tempore presides when the Speaker is not present.
The Louisiana House of Representatives comprises 105 representatives elected from across the state from single-member districts by registered voters in the district. Representatives must be electors, be at least eighteen years old, be domiciled in the district they represent at least one year, and have resided in the state two years. It is the judge of its members' qualifications and elections. All candidates for state representative in a district compete in a nonpartisan blanket primary; if no candidate earns 50+1 percent of the vote, the top two vote-getters advance into the general election. Elections occur every four years and representatives are limited to three four-year terms (12 years). If a seat is vacant, it will be filled in a special election. Its sessions occur along with the Louisiana State Senate, every year, for sixty legislative days in even-numbered years and forty-five legislative days in odd-numbered years in which only monetary bills can be considered. It is the lower legislative chamber of the Louisiana State Legislature; the upper house is the Louisiana State Senate. The Louisiana House has sole authority to impeach state officials and introduce appropriation bills. The Louisiana House of Representatives was established, along with its functions and authority, in Article III, Section 3 of the Louisiana Constitution.
| Affiliation | Party (Shading indicates majority caucus) | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Ind | Democratic | Vacant | ||||
| nowrap style="font-size:80%" | End of legislature 2011 | 57 | 2 | 46 | 105 | 0 | |
| nowrap style="font-size:80%" | Begin 2012 | 58 | 2 | 45 | 105 | 0 | |
| nowrap style="font-size:80%" | End of legislature 2015 | 59 | 44 | ||||
| nowrap style="font-size:80%" | Begin 2016 | 61 | 2 | 42 | 105 | 0 | |
| nowrap style="font-size:80%" | End of legislature 2019 | 60 | 5 | 39 | 104 | 1 | |
| nowrap style="font-size:80%" | Begin 2020 | 68 | 2 | 35 | 105 | 0 | |
| nowrap style="font-size:80%" | End of legislature 2023 | 71 | 0 | 33 | 104 | 1 | |
| nowrap style="font-size:80%" | Begin 2024 | 73 | 0 | 32 | 105 | 0 | |
| Latest voting share | |||||||
| District | Name | Party | Parishes represented | First elected | Eligible for reelection | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danny McCormick | Rep | Caddo | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 2 | Steven Jackson | Dem | Bossier and Caddo | 2023 | Yes | ||
| 3 | Tammy Phelps | Dem | Caddo | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 4 | Dem | Caddo | 2023 | Yes | |||
| 5 | Dennis Bamburg Jr. | Rep | Bossier, Caddo and Red River | 2023 | Yes | ||
| 6 | Michael Melerine | Rep | Bossier and Caddo | 2023 | Yes | ||
| 7 | Rep | Caddo, DeSoto, and Sabine | 2015 | No | |||
| 8 | Raymond J. Crews | Rep | Bossier | 2017 | No | ||
| 9 | Rep | Bossier | 2015 | No | |||
| 10 | Rep | Webster and Bossier | 2018 | Yes | |||
| 11 | Dem | Bienville, Claiborne, and Lincoln | 2023 | Yes | |||
| 12 | Christopher Turner | Rep | Lincoln and Union | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 13 | Rep | Bienville, Jackson, Natchitoches and Winn | 2015 | No | |||
| 14 | Michael Charles Echols | Rep | Ouachita | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 15 | Foy Bryan Gadberry | Rep | Ouachita | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 16 | Adrian Fisher | Dem | Morehouse and Ouachita parishes | 2021 | Yes | ||
| 17 | Pat Moore | Dem | Ouachita | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 18 | Jeremy LaCombe | Rep | Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 19 | Francis C. Thompson | Rep | East Carroll, Madison, Morehouse, Richland, and West Carroll | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 20 | Neil Riser | Rep | Caldwell, Catahoula, Franklin, LaSalle, and Ouachita | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 21 | C. Travis Johnson | Dem | Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, and Tensas | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 22 | Rep | Grant, LaSalle and Natchitoches | 2019 | Yes | |||
| 23 | Shaun Mena | Dem | Orleans | 2023 | Yes | ||
| 24 | Rodney Schamerhorn | Rep | Beauregard, Sabine, and Vernon | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 25 | Jason Brian DeWitt | Rep | Natchitoches and Rapides | 2023 | Yes | ||
| 26 | Ed Larvadain III | Dem | Rapides | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 27 | Michael T. Johnson | Rep | Rapides | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 28 | Daryl Deshotel | Rep | Avoyelles and St. Landry | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 29 | Edmond Jordan | Dem | East Baton Rouge and West Baton Rouge | 2016 | No | ||
| 30 | Charles Owen | Rep | Beauregard and Vernon | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 31 | Troy Hebert | Rep | Lafayette and Vermilion | 2023 | Yes | ||
| 32 | R. Dewith Carrier | Rep | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu and Jefferson Davis | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 33 | Les Farnum | Rep | Calcasieu | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 34 | Wilford Carter Sr. | Dem | Calcasieu | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 35 | Brett F. Geymann | Rep | Beauregard and Calcasieu | 2021 | Yes | ||
| 36 | Rep | Calcasieu | 2019 | Yes | |||
| 37 | Troy D. Romero | Rep | Calcasieu and Jefferson Davis | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 38 | Rhonda Gaye Butler | Rep | Evangeline and Rapides | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 39 | Rep | Lafayette | 2015 | No | |||
| 40 | Dem | St. Landry | 2015 | No | |||
| 41 | Rep | Acadia, Evangeline, and St. Landry | 2015 | No | |||
| 42 | Chance Keith Henry | Rep | Acadia and Lafayette | 2023 | Yes | ||
| 43 | Rep | Lafayette | 2023 | Yes | |||
| 44 | Tehmi Jahi Chassion | Dem | Lafayette | 2023 | Yes | ||
| 45 | Rep | Lafayette | 2023 | Yes | |||
| 46 | Chad Michael Boyer | Rep | St. Landry, and St. Martin | 2023 | Yes | ||
| 47 | Ryan Bourriaque | Rep | Calcasieu, Cameron, and Vermilion | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 48 | Beau Beaullieu | Rep | Iberia, Lafayette, and St. Martin | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 49 | Jacob Jules Gabriel Landry | Rep | Iberia, Lafayette and Vermillion | 2023 | Yes | ||
| 50 | Vincent "Vinney" St. Blanc III | Rep | St. Martin and St. Mary | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 51 | Rep | Assumption, Lafourche, St. Mary, and Terrebonne | 2015 | No | |||
| 52 | Rep | Terrebonne | 2015 | No | |||
| 53 | Rep | Terrebonne | 2023 | Yes | |||
| 54 | Joseph A. Orgeron | Rep | Jefferson and Lafourche | 2020 | Yes | ||
| 55 | Bryan Fontenot | Rep | Lafourche | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 56 | Beth Anne Billings | Rep | St. Charles and St. John the Baptist | 2023 | Yes | ||
| 57 | Sylvia Elaine Taylor | Dem | St. Charles and St. John the Baptist | 2023 | Yes | ||
| 58 | Ken Brass | Dem | Ascension, St. James and St. John | 2017 | No | ||
| 59 | Rep | Ascension | 2015 | No | |||
| 60 | Chad Brown | Dem | Assumption and Iberville | 2015 | No | ||
| 61 | C. Denise Marcelle | Dem | East Baton Rouge | 2015 | No | ||
| 62 | Roy Daryl Adams | Dem | East Baton Rouge and East Feliciana | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 63 | Barbara Carpenter | Dem | East Baton Rouge | 2015 | No | ||
| 64 | Rep | East Baton Rouge and Livingston | 2023 | Yes | |||
| 65 | Lauren Ventrella | Rep | East Baton Rouge | 2023 | Yes | ||
| 66 | Rep | East Baton Rouge | 2023 | Yes | |||
| 67 | Larry Selders | Dem | East Baton Rouge | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 68 | Dixon McMakin | Rep | East Baton Rouge | 2023 | Yes | ||
| 69 | Rep | East Baton Rouge | 2015 | No | |||
| 70 | Barbara Reich Freiberg | Rep | East Baton Rouge | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 71 | Roger William Wilder, III | Rep | Livingston | 2023 | Yes | ||
| 72 | Dem | St. Helena, and Tangipahoa | 2015 | No | |||
| 73 | Kimberly Coates | Rep | Tangipahoa | 2023 | Yes | ||
| 74 | Peter F. Egan, Sr. | Rep | St. Tammany | 2023 | Yes | ||
| 75 | Rep | Washington | 2023 | Yes | |||
| 76 | Stephanie Berault | Rep | St. Tammany | 2023 | Yes | ||
| 77 | Mark Wright | Rep | St. Tammany | 2017 | No | ||
| 78 | John R. Illg Jr. | Rep | Jefferson | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 79 | Debbie Villio | Rep | Jefferson | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 80 | Polly Thomas | Rep | Jefferson | 2016 | No | ||
| 81 | Rep | Ascension, Livingston and St. James | 2023 | Yes | |||
| 82 | Rep | Jefferson | 2021 | Yes | |||
| 83 | Kyle M. Green Jr. | Dem | Jefferson | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 84 | Timothy P. Kerner Sr | Rep | Jefferson | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 85 | Vincent Cox III | Rep | Jefferson | 2023 | Yes | ||
| 86 | Nicholas Muscarello | Rep | Tangipahoa | 2018 | Yes | ||
| 87 | Dem | Jefferson | 2015 | No | |||
| 88 | Rep | Ascension | 2019 | Yes | |||
| 89 | Rep | St. Tammany | 2023 | Yes | |||
| 90 | Brian Glorioso | Rep | St. Tammany | 2023 | Yes | ||
| 91 | Mandie Landry | Dem | Orleans | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 92 | Joseph A. Stagni | Rep | Jefferson and St. Charles | 2017 | No | ||
| 93 | Alonzo Knox | Dem | Orleans | 2023 | Yes | ||
| 94 | Rep | Jefferson and Orleans | 2015 | No | |||
| 95 | Rep | Livingston and Tangipahoa | 2023 | Yes | |||
| 96 | Marcus Anthony Bryant | Dem | Iberia, Lafayette, and St. Martin | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 97 | Matthew Willard | Dem | Orleans | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 98 | Aimee Adatto Freeman | Dem | Orleans | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 99 | Candace N. Newell | Dem | Orleans | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 100 | Jason Hughes | Dem | Orleans | 2019 | Yes | ||
| 101 | Vanessa Caston LaFleur | Dem | East Baton Rouge | 2022 | Yes | ||
| 102 | Delisha Boyd | Dem | Orleans | 2021 | Yes | ||
| 103 | Michael Bayham | Rep | St. Bernard | 2023 | Yes | ||
| 104 | Jack Galle | Rep | St. Tammany | 2023 | Yes | ||
| 105 | Jacob Braud | Rep | Jefferson, Orleans, and Plaquemines | 2023 | Yes |
The committees of the Louisiana House review proposed bills and either kill them or recommend their passage to the full house. Each committee has a specialized area it oversees. Committees can call upon state officials to testify at committee meetings. Committee memberships, including chairmanships and vice chairmanships, are assigned by the Speaker.[2]
| Name | Chairman | Vice Chair | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Administration of Criminal Justice | Vacant | Tony Bacala | |||
| Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, & Rural Development | Jack McFarland | Dustin Miller | |||
| Appropriations | Jerome Zeringue | Francis C. Thompson | |||
| Civil Law and Procedure | Gregory A. Miller | Mike Johnson | |||
| Commerce | Paula Davis | Stephanie Hilferty | |||
| Education | Lance Harris | Patrick O. Jefferson | |||
| Health & Welfare | Larry Bagley | Christopher Turner | |||
| House & Governmental Affairs | John M. Stefanski | Royce Duplessis | |||
| Insurance | Mike Huval | Edmond Jordan | |||
| Judiciary | Randal L. Gaines | Sherman Q. Mack | |||
| Labor & Industrial Relations | Barbara Carpenter | Neil Riser | |||
| Municipal, Parochial, & Cultural Affairs | Rick Edmonds | Joseph A. Stagni | |||
| Natural Resources & Environment | Jean-Paul Coussan | Ryan Bourrique | |||
| Retirement | Phillip DeVillier | John R. Illg Jr. | |||
| Transportation, Highways, & Public Works | Mark Wright | Ken Brass | |||
| Ways and Means | Stuart J. Bishop | Gerald "Beau" Beaullieu IV |
See main article: Political party strength in Louisiana.