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LouisianaHB 12542026 Regular SessionHouse

DISTRICTS/ECONOMIC DEVEL: Provides relative to the New Orleans Regional Business Park

Sponsored By: Candace N. Newell (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Local and Municipal Affairs

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Business park board vacancy and attendance rules

The New Orleans Regional Business Park’s appointing authorities must fill board vacancies within 60 days after written notice. After that deadline, remaining board members may appoint an interim member, whom the responsible appointing authority may later replace. If the board does not fill the seat within the next 60 days, the mayor appoints someone. Members automatically lose their seats after four consecutive unexcused absences from regular or special meetings in one calendar year. The appointing authority must fill those seats within 15 days for the rest of the vacated term, and removed members cannot serve again.

New Orleans business park board changes

The New Orleans Regional Business Park board has 11 members, down from 12. The mayor appoints four members instead of five, without having to choose from lists submitted by specified organizations. Six members, up from five, must be present to conduct business; the board must keep minutes public as required by law. Members no longer have fixed two-year terms and can be removed at any time by the authority that appointed them. Their service ends when that authority’s term ends, but they remain eligible for reappointment.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Candace N. Newell

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 139 • No: 2

Senate vote • 5/26/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 35 • No: 0

House vote • 5/11/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 90 • No: 2

House vote • 5/6/2026

Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 484 reported by the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs

Yes: 14 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 728.

    6/2/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/2/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/28/2026House

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

    5/27/2026House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/27/2026Senate

  6. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/26/2026Senate

  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    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.

    5/12/2026Senate

  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/11/2026House

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

    5/11/2026Senate

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

    5/7/2026House

  15. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2026.

    5/7/2026House

  16. Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 484 reported by the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs (14-0).

    5/6/2026House

  17. Read by title.

    4/29/2026House

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