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LouisianaHB 3922025 Regular SessionHouse

UTILITIES: Provides relative to the Louisiana Underground Utilities and Facilities Damage Prevention Law

Sponsored By: Vincent "Vinney" St. Blanc III (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Commerce, Consumer Protection and International AffairsCommerce

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Annual training required at excavation sites

At least one person at each Louisiana underground or submerged excavation or demolition site must show proof of annual training. The Regional Notification Center must provide this training free on its website. Entities and personnel certified through an operator qualification program meeting 49 C.F.R. Part 192 or Part 195 are exempt.

New excavation deadlines and scheduling options

Louisiana excavators and demolishers must notify the Regional Notification Center by phone or electronically 48–120 hours before starting work. Work must start within 120 hours after the mark-by time—the agreed or legally required utility-marking deadline—or count as a violation. Both clocks exclude weekends, New Year's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day. The start deadline allows extensions by mutual agreement with the facility owner or operator. It also allows delays when events beyond the contractor's control make compliance impractical or impossible, including weather, equipment failure, or unavailable vital supplies or equipment. Existing exceptions under R.S. 40:1749.15 remain. Large projects are contiguous work that cannot reasonably finish within 20 calendar days, or 30 for agricultural, forestry, or marine work. Operators and contractors in conflict can use voluntary written agreements through the Center to set marking deadlines and project schedules. If all parties cannot agree within 30 calendar days after notice submission, the large-project notice becomes void. The contractor must cancel it and submit a routine notice under standard procedures.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Vincent "Vinney" St. Blanc III

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 150 • No: 0

Senate vote • 6/2/2025

Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 38 • No: 0

House vote • 5/19/2025

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 99 • No: 0

House vote • 5/13/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 13 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 192.

    6/8/2025House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2025.

    6/8/2025House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/5/2025House

  4. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/4/2025Senate

  5. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    6/3/2025House

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

    6/3/2025House

  7. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    6/2/2025Senate

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

    6/1/2025Senate

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

    6/1/2025Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/29/2025Senate

  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs.

    5/21/2025Senate

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

    5/20/2025Senate

  13. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/19/2025House

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2025.

    5/15/2025House

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

    5/14/2025House

  16. Reported with amendments (13-0).

    5/13/2025House

  17. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce.

    4/14/2025House

  18. Prefiled.

    4/3/2025House

  19. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce.

    4/3/2025House

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