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LouisianaHB 2992025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

CEMETERIES: Increases the maximum rate of ad valorem taxes the governing authority of Morehouse Parish is authorized to levy for public cemeteries and provides for the use of the proceeds of the taxes

Sponsored By: Francis C. Thompson (Republican)

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Morehouse Parish raises voter-approved cemetery tax cap

The law raises Morehouse Parish’s ward-level cemetery property-tax cap from 2 to 3 mills, above the separately authorized tax. A majority of ward voters voting on the tax must approve it in an election under Louisiana’s general election laws. The law itself imposes no tax, but property owners can face higher bills when the parish levies an approved tax. Proceeds fund buying, improving, maintaining, and caring for public cemeteries in that ward. The parish can also use unspent proceeds from tax years before 2025 to buy or improve public cemeteries in any ward where this tax was levied.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Francis C. Thompson

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 138 • No: 0

Senate vote • 6/8/2025

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 36 • No: 0

House vote • 5/28/2025

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 92 • No: 0

House vote • 5/22/2025

Reported favorably

Yes: 10 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

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

    6/9/2025House

  2. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/9/2025Senate

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/9/2025House

  4. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    6/8/2025Senate

  5. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    6/8/2025House

  6. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    6/4/2025Senate

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

    6/4/2025Senate

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

    5/29/2025Senate

  9. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/28/2025House

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

    5/28/2025Senate

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

    5/27/2025House

  12. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/2025.

    5/27/2025House

  13. Reported favorably (10-0).

    5/22/2025House

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

    4/14/2025House

  15. Prefiled.

    4/2/2025House

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

    4/2/2025House

  17. Becomes Act No. 493 without the Governor's signature.

    7/1/2024House

  18. Effective date: 06/30/2025.

    7/1/2024House

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