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LouisianaHB 4642026 Regular SessionHouse

UTILITIES: Provides relative to mandatory reporting of damage to utilities

Sponsored By: Neil Riser (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Commerce, Consumer Protection and International AffairsCommerce

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Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Digging crews must report utility damage

Anyone responsible for digging or demolition that damages an underground facility or utility must report it immediately upon discovery. They must tell both the owner or operator and the regional notification center where the damage is and what happened. They must allow reasonable time for repairs before continuing digging, demolition, or backfilling in the immediate area of damage. The center must alert all owners and operators whose utilities or facilities in the area may have been damaged.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Neil Riser

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 149 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/12/2026

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 • 3/18/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 97 • No: 0

House vote • 3/11/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 17 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 161.

    5/15/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/15/2026House

  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 35 yeas and 0 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.

    5/4/2026Senate

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

    4/29/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    4/28/2026Senate

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

    3/23/2026Senate

  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    3/18/2026House

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

    3/18/2026Senate

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 03/18/2026.

    3/17/2026House

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

    3/16/2026House

  16. Reported favorably (17-0).

    3/11/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

  18. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

    2/27/2026House

  19. Prefiled.

    2/26/2026House

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

    2/26/2026House

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