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LouisianaHB 1382026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

DISTRICTS/NEIGHBORHOOD: Provides relative to the Parkwood Terrace Crime Prevention and Neighborhood Improvement District in East Baton Rouge Parish

Sponsored By: Barbara Carpenter (Democratic)

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Local and Municipal AffairsMunicipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Parkwood Terrace protects added policing and funding

Parkwood Terrace district police services must add to, not replace, services from Baker, Baton Rouge, and East Baton Rouge Parish. The district can seek, accept, and spend voluntary donations and grants for its work; no contribution is required. It must spend fee revenue and other funds under an adopted budget. The board must adopt an annual budget under Louisiana's local government budget law, and the district faces Legislative Auditor review. If the district ends, its remaining money must go to Baker for law enforcement in the former district area.

Annual parcel fees for Parkwood Terrace homeowners

The law lets the Parkwood Terrace district charge $100 to $150 yearly for each residentially zoned parcel within its boundaries. The board sets the fee by resolution, but a majority of district voters voting must approve its initial use. The initial vote must coincide with a regularly scheduled East Baton Rouge Parish election. After the first calendar year, the board can raise the fee once yearly without another election. Each increase is limited to 10% of the prior year's fee, and the fee cannot exceed $150. Voters approve fee terms and renewals lasting no more than ten years each. The parish continues collecting the existing 2016 fee until its approved expiration unless voters approve a new fee earlier. Combined annual charges by the district and parish cannot exceed the $150 residential parcel limit.

Parkwood Terrace leaders gain lawsuit protections

The district must cover claims against its officers and board members to the extent state law and district bylaws allow. They generally are protected from money-damage claims for breaching their duties. This limits claims by the district and people who live, own property, visit, or do business there. Protection excludes bad-faith acts, intentional wrongdoing, knowing lawbreaking, and transactions involving improper personal gain. State law also limits their personal liability for acts or failures to act while performing official duties.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Barbara Carpenter

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 127 • No: 12

Senate vote • 5/12/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 34 • No: 1

House vote • 4/1/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 80, nays 11. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 80 • No: 11

House vote • 3/26/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 13 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Becomes Act No. 397 without the Governor's signature.

    5/27/2026House

  2. Effective date: 05/25/2026.

    5/27/2026House

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/14/2026Senate

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/14/2026House

  5. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/13/2026House

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

    5/13/2026House

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/12/2026Senate

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

    5/5/2026Senate

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

    5/4/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    4/29/2026Senate

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

    4/7/2026Senate

  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 80, nays 11. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/1/2026House

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

    4/1/2026Senate

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/01/2026.

    3/31/2026House

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

    3/30/2026House

  16. Reported favorably (13-0).

    3/26/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

  18. Prefiled.

    2/13/2026House

  19. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.

    2/13/2026House

  20. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/13/2026.

    2/13/2026House

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