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LouisianaHB 10072026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

DISTRICTS/SPECIAL: Creates the Faubourg Nouveau Marigny Improvement District in Orleans Parish

Sponsored By: Alonzo L. Knox (Democratic)

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Local and Municipal AffairsMunicipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.

Voter-approved parcel fees for Marigny property owners

New Orleans can impose a yearly parcel fee only after approval by a majority of district voters voting on it. Creating the district does not itself impose the fee. The board sets and can change fee amounts by resolution, within these annual caps: $100 for improved residential parcels, $100 for improved commercial parcels, $200 for improved mixed-use parcels, and $500 for unimproved residential or commercial parcels. Owners qualifying for the state's special assessment level have a $25 cap; owners qualifying for a homestead exemption have a $100 cap. No fee applies to a parcel whose owner qualifies for and receives both protections. Parcels include lots, individual tracts, subdivided land, and condominium parcels; the owner is responsible for payment. Fees are collected with property taxes, and unpaid fees face the same penalties and enforcement procedures as unpaid property taxes. Initial authorization and each renewal last no more than eight years; renewals follow the approved proposition and state election law. The city can keep 1% for collection, and proceeds must be used only for district purposes. If the district ends, remaining money goes into a separate city account used only for beautification and betterment of that area.

New improvement district for Faubourg Nouveau Marigny

The law creates the Faubourg Nouveau Marigny Improvement District in Orleans Parish. Its boundaries follow St. Bernard Avenue, North Claiborne Avenue, Elysian Fields Avenue, St. Claude Avenue, and Joseph Guillaume Place. The district can fund landscaping, lighting, signs, infrastructure, cleanups, community events, and work to address blight. It can buy property within the district, accept grants and donations, make contracts, and work with public and private partners. These services are intended to add to city services, not replace them. Five unpaid commissioners govern the district: the neighborhood association's president and vice president, plus three members elected by district residents. Elected members serve two-year terms; a drawing assigns two initial one-year terms and one initial two-year term. The board chooses its own president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer. It must follow open-meeting, public-records, and government ethics laws, keep minutes, and maintain financial records. It must adopt an annual budget under state law, and the Legislative Auditor can audit its finances.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 129 • No: 13

Senate vote • 5/26/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 33 • No: 0

House vote • 4/23/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 82, nays 13. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 82 • No: 13

House vote • 4/20/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 14 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Becomes Act No. 926 without the Governor's signature.

    6/23/2026House

  2. Effective date: 06/17/2026.

    6/23/2026House

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/27/2026Senate

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/27/2026House

  5. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/26/2026Senate

  6. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/26/2026House

  7. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/26/2026House

  8. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    5/20/2026Senate

  9. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/19/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/18/2026Senate

  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs.

    4/28/2026Senate

  12. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    4/27/2026Senate

  13. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 82, nays 13. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/23/2026House

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/23/2026.

    4/22/2026House

  15. Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    4/21/2026House

  16. Reported favorably (14-0).

    4/20/2026House

  17. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.

    3/26/2026House

  18. Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

    3/25/2026House

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