Louisiana House of Representatives

Louisiana House of Representatives Chambre des Représentants de Louisiane
71st Louisiana Legislature
Type
Type	Lower house
Term limits	3 Terms (12 years)
History
New session started	March 9, 2020
Leadership
Speaker	Clay Schexnayder (R) since January 13, 2020
Speaker Pro Tempore	Tanner Magee (R) since January 13, 2020
Structure
Seats	105
Political groups	Majority   Republican (68) Minority   Democratic (32)   Independent (3)
Length of term	4 years
Authority	Article III, Section 3, Louisiana Constitution
Salary	$15,362/year
Elections
Last election	October 12 and November 16, 2019 (105 seats)
Next election	October 14 and November 18, 2023 (105 seats)
Redistricting	Legislative control
Meeting place
House of Representatives Chamber Louisiana State Capitol Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Website
Louisiana House of Representatives

The Louisiana House of Representatives (Template:Lang-fr) is the lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature, the state legislature of the US state of Louisiana. The House 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.

Leadership of the House

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. 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 House of Representatives also elects a Speaker pro tempore to preside in the absence of the Speaker.

The current Speaker is Republican Clay Schexnayder, who was elected to that position in 2020. His deputy is the Speaker pro tempore, currently Republican Tanner Magee who was also elected to the position in 2020. 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. The House 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. House 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. The House 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
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	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
December 1, 2020	67	2	35	104	1
January 12, 2021	66	2	35	103	2
July 1, 2021	68	3	33	104	1
July 16, 2021	68	3	32	103	2
Latest voting share	66.02%	2.91%	31.07%

Members

District	Name	Party	Parishes represented	First elected	Eligible for reelection
1	Danny McCormick	Rep	Bossier and Caddo	2019	Yes
2	Samuel Jenkins Jr.	Dem	Bossier and Caddo	2015	Yes
3	Tammy Phillips	Dem	Caddo	2019	Yes
4	Cedric Glover	Dem	Caddo	2015	Yes
5	Alan Seabaugh	Rep	Caddo	2010	No
6	Thomas Pressly	Rep	Bossier and Caddo	2019	Yes
7	Larry Bagley	Rep	Caddo, DeSoto, and Sabine	2015	Yes
8	Raymond Crews	Rep	Bossier	2017	Yes
9	Dodie Horton	Rep	Bossier	2015	Yes
10	Wayne McMahen	Rep	Webster and Bossier	2018	Yes
11	Patrick O. Jefferson	Dem	Bienville, Claiborne, and Lincoln	2011	No
12	Christopher Turner	Rep	Lincoln and Union	2019	Yes
13	Jack McFarland	Rep	Bienville, Jackson, Ouachita, and Winn	2015	Yes
14	Michael Echols	Rep	Morehouse and Ouachita	2019	Yes
15	Foy Gadberry	Rep	Ouachita	2019	Yes
16	Vacant		Morehouse and Ouachita
17	Pat Moore	Dem	Ouachita	2019	Yes
18	Jeremy LaCombe	Dem	Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana	2019	Yes
19	Francis C. Thompson	Dem	East Carroll, Madison, Morehouse, Ouachita, Richland, and West Carroll	2019	Yes
20	Neil Riser	Rep	Caldwell, Catahoula, Franklin, LaSalle, and Tensas	2019	Yes
21	C. Travis Johnson	Dem	Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Madison, and Tensas	2019	Yes
22	Michael Gabe Firment	Rep	Grant, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Red River, and Winn	2019	Yes
23	Kenny Ray Cox	Dem	DeSoto, Natchitoches, and Red River	2011	No
24	Rodney Schamerhorn	Rep	Natchitoches, Sabine, and Vernon	2019	Yes
25	Lance Harris	Rep	Rapides	2011	No
26	Ed Larvadain	Dem	Rapides	2019	Yes
27	Michael T. Johnson	Rep	Rapides	2019	Yes
28	Daryl Deshotel	Rep	Avoyelles	2019	Yes
29	Edmond Jordan	Dem	East Baton Rouge and West Baton Rouge	2016	Yes
30	Chuck Owen	Rep	Beauregard and Vernon	2019	Yes
31	Jonathan Goudeau	Rep	Lafayette and Vermilion	2019	Yes
32	R. Dewith Carrier	Rep	Allen, Beauregard, and Calcasieu	2019	Yes
33	Les Farnum	Rep	Calcasieu	2019	Yes
34	Wilford Dan Carter Sr.	Dem	Calcasieu	2019	Yes
35	Brett Geymann	Rep	Beauregard and Calcasieu	2021	Yes
36	Phillip Tarver	Rep	Calcasieu	2019	Yes
37	Troy Romero	Rep	Calcasieu and Jefferson Davis	2019	Yes
38	Rhonda Butler	Rep	Evangeline and St. Landry	2019	Yes
39	Julie Emerson	Rep	Lafayette and St. Landry	2015	Yes
40	Dustin Miller	Dem	St. Landry	2015	Yes
41	Phillip DeVillier	Rep	Acadia, Evangeline, and St. Landry	2015	Yes
42	John Stefanski	Rep	Acadia and Lafayette	2017	Yes
43	Stuart Bishop	Rep	Lafayette	2011	No
44	Vincent Pierre	Dem	Lafayette	2011	No
45	Jean-Paul Coussan	Rep	Lafayette	2015	Yes
46	Mike "Pete" Huval	Rep	Iberia, St. Landry, and St. Martin	2011	No
47	Ryan Bourriaque	Rep	Calcasieu, Cameron, and Vermilion	2019	Yes
48	Beau Beaullieu	Rep	Iberia, Lafayette, and St. Martin	2019	Yes
49	Blake Miguez	Rep	Iberia and Vermillion	2015	Yes
50	Vincent St. Blanc III	Rep	St. Martin and St. Mary	2019	Yes
51	Beryl Amedee	Rep	Assumption, Lafourche, St. Mary, and Terrebonne	2015	Yes
52	Jerome Zeringue	Rep	Lafourche and Terrebonne	2015	Yes
53	Tanner Magee	Rep	Lafourche and Terrebonne	2015	Yes
54	Joseph Orgeron	Rep	Jefferson and Lafourche	2020	Yes
55	Bryant Fontenot	Rep	Lafourche	2019	Yes
56	Gregory A. Miller	Rep	St. Charles and St. John the Baptist	2011	No
57	Randal Gaines	Dem	St. Charles and St. John the Baptist	2011	No
58	Ken Brass	Dem	Ascension, Iberville, and St. James	2017	Yes
59	Tony Bacala	Rep	Ascension	2015	Yes
60	Chad M. Brown	Dem	Assumption and Iberville	2015	Yes
61	C. Denise Marcelle	Dem	East Baton Rouge	2015	Yes
62	Roy Adams	Ind	East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, and West Feliciana	2019	Yes
63	Barbara West Carpenter	Dem	East Baton Rouge	2015	Yes
64	Valarie Hodges	Rep	East Baton Rouge and Livingston	2011	No
65	Barry Ivey	Rep	East Baton Rouge	2013	Yes
66	Rick Edmonds	Rep	East Baton Rouge	2015	Yes
67	Larry Selders	Dem	East Baton Rouge	2019	Yes
68	Steven McKnight	Rep	East Baton Rouge	2019	Yes
69	Paula Davis	Rep	East Baton Rouge	2015	Yes
70	Barbara Freiberg	Rep	East Baton Rouge	2019	Yes
71	Buddy Mincey Jr.	Rep	Livingston	2019	Yes
72	Robby Carter	Dem	East Feliciana, St. Helena, and Tangipahoa	2015	Yes
73	William Wheat Jr.	Rep	Tangipahoa	2019	Yes
74	Larry Frieman	Rep	St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, and Washington	2019	Yes
75	Malinda Brumfield White	Ind	St. Tammany and Washington	2015	Yes
76	Robert Owen	Rep	St. Tammany	2019	Yes
77	Mark Wright	Rep	St. Tammany	2017	Yes
78	John Illg Jr.	Rep	Jefferson	2019	Yes
79	Debbie Villio	Rep	Jefferson	2019	Yes
80	Polly Thomas	Rep	Jefferson	2016	Yes
81	Clay Schexnayder	Rep	Ascension, Livingston, St. John the Baptist, and St. James	2011	No
82	Laurie Schlegel	Rep	Jefferson	2021	Yes
83	Kyle Green Jr.	Dem	Jefferson	2019	Yes
84	Timothy Kerner	Rep	Jefferson	2019	Yes
85	Joseph Marino III	Ind	Jefferson	2016	Yes
86	Nicholas Muscarello	Rep	Tangipahoa	2018	Yes
87	Rodney Lyons	Dem	Jefferson	2015	Yes
88	Kathy Edmonston	Rep	Ascension	2019	Yes
89	Richard Nelson	Rep	St. Tammany	2019	Yes
90	Mary DuBuisson	Rep	St. Tammany	2018	Yes
91	Mandie Landry	Dem	Orleans	2019	Yes
92	Joseph Stagni	Rep	Jefferson and St. Charles	2017	Yes
93	Royce Duplessis	Dem	Orleans	2018	Yes
94	Stephanie Hilferty	Rep	Jefferson and Orleans	2015	Yes
95	Sherman Q. Mack	Rep	Livingston	2011	No
96	Marcus 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 Newell	Dem	Orleans	2019	Yes
100	Jason Hughes	Dem	Orleans	2019	Yes
101	Edward James	Dem	East Baton Rouge	2011	No
102	Vacant		Orleans
103	Ray Garofalo	Rep	Orleans, St. Bernard, and Plaquemines	2011	No
104	Paul Hollis	Rep	St. Tammany	2011	No
105	Mack Cormier	Dem	Jefferson, Orleans, and Plaquemines	2019	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.

Name	Chairman	Vice Chair
Administration of Criminal Justice	Ted James	Tony Bacala
Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, & Rural Development	Jack McFarland	Francis Thompson
Appropriations	Jerome "Zee" Zeringue	Gary Carter
Civil Law and Procedure	Greg Miller	Michael Johnson
Commerce	Paula Davis	Stephanie Hilferty
Education	Ray Garofalo	Mark Wright
Health & Welfare	Larry Bagley	Chris Turner
House & Governmental Affairs	John Stefanski	Royce Duplessis
Insurance	Vacant	Edmond Jordan
Judiciary	Randal Gaines	Sherman Mack
Labor & Industrial Relations	Barbara Carpenter	Valerie Hodges
Municipal, Parochial, & Cultural Affairs	Mike Huval	Joe Stagni
Natural Resources & Environment	Jean-Paul Coussan	Ryan Bourrique
Retirement	Lance Harris	Gerald "Beau" Beaullieu
Transportation, Highways, & Public Works	Vacant	Ken Brass
Ways and Means	Stuart Bishop	N/A

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

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
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