Louisiana House of Representatives

The Louisiana House of Representatives (French: Chambre des Représentants de Louisiane; Spanish: 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.

Louisiana House of Representatives Chambre des Représentants de Louisiane Cámara de Representantes de Luisiana
Louisiana State Legislature
Type
Type	Lower house
Term limits	3 Terms (12 years)
History
New session started	January 8, 2024
Leadership
Speaker	Phillip DeVillier (R) since January 8, 2024
Speaker Pro Tempore	Michael T. Johnson (R) since January 8, 2024
Majority Leader	Mark Wright (R) since January 8, 2024
Minority Leader	Matthew Willard (D) since January 8, 2024
Structure
Seats	105
Political groups	Majority   Republican (73) Minority   Democratic (32)
Length of term	4 years
Authority	Article III, Section 3, Louisiana Constitution
Salary	$16,800/year plus per diem.
Elections
Last election	October 14 and November 18, 2023
Next election	October 16 and November 20, 2027
Redistricting	Legislative control
Meeting place
House of Representatives Chamber Louisiana State Capitol Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Website
Louisiana House of Representatives

The House convenes at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge.

Leadership

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.

Composition

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.

Party membership

Affiliation	Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)			Total
	Republican	Ind	Democratic		Vacant
End of legislature 2011	57	2	46	105	0
Begin 2012	58	2	45	105	0
End of legislature 2015	59		44
Begin 2016	61	2	42	105	0
End of legislature 2019	60	5	39	104	1
Begin 2020	68	2	35	105	0
End of legislature 2023	71	0	33	104	1
Begin 2024	73	0	32	105	0
Latest voting share	69.5%	0%	30.5%

Members

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	Joy Walters	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	Larry Bagley	Rep	Caddo, DeSoto, and Sabine	2015	No
8	Raymond J. Crews	Rep	Bossier	2017	No
9	Dodie Horton	Rep	Bossier	2015	No
10	Wayne McMahen	Rep	Webster and Bossier	2018	Yes
11	Rashid Armand Young	Dem	Bienville, Claiborne, and Lincoln	2023	Yes
12	Christopher Turner	Rep	Lincoln and Union	2019	Yes
13	Jack McFarland	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	Gabe Firment	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	Phillip Eric Tarver	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	Julie Emerson	Rep	Lafayette	2015	No
40	Dustin Miller	Dem	St. Landry	2015	No
41	Phillip DeVillier	Rep	Acadia, Evangeline, and St. Landry	2015	No
42	Chance Keith Henry	Rep	Acadia and Lafayette	2023	Yes
43	Josh Carlson	Rep	Lafayette	2023	Yes
44	Tehmi Jahi Chassion	Dem	Lafayette	2023	Yes
45	Brach Myers	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	Beryl Amedee	Rep	Assumption, Lafourche, St. Mary, and Terrebonne	2015	No
52	Jerome Zeringue	Rep	Terrebonne	2015	No
53	Jessica Domangue	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	Tony Bacala	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	Kellee Hennessy Dickerson	Rep	East Baton Rouge and Livingston	2023	Yes
65	Lauren Ventrella	Rep	East Baton Rouge	2023	Yes
66	Emily Chenevert	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	Paula Davis	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	Robby Carter	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	John Wyble	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	Jeffrey Wiley	Rep	Ascension, Livingston and St. James	2023	Yes
82	Laurie Schlegel	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	Rodney Lyons	Dem	Jefferson	2015	No
88	Kathy Edmonston	Rep	Ascension	2019	Yes
89	Christopher Kim Carver	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	Stephanie Hilferty	Rep	Jefferson and Orleans	2015	No
95	Shane Mack	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

Committee assignments

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

Past composition of the House of Representatives

Main article: Political party strength in Louisiana

See also

• List of speakers of the Louisiana House of Representatives
• Louisiana State Capitol
• Louisiana State Legislature
• Louisiana Senate

References

1. (see House Rule 2.3 Archived May 6, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, House Journal of the 2000 Organizational Session and House Journal of the 2004 Organizational Session Archived June 15, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, House Journal of January 14, 2008 Archived May 6, 2012, at the Wayback Machine).
2. "House Standing Committees". Louisiana House of Representatives.

External links

• Louisiana House of Representatives
• House district maps
• Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812–2024
• 2012–2016 House Orientation Guide
• In The Loop Official Blog of the Louisiana House of Representatives
• 2008-2011 Party Affiliation