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LouisianaHB 4992025 Regular SessionHouse

TRAFFIC/VIOLATIONS: Establishes penalties for persons exceeding the speed limit or breaching construction zones and utility work safety zones under active construction with workers on site (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

Sponsored By: Dennis Bamburg Jr. (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Transportation, Highways and Public Works

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Drivers face steeper road-zone penalties

Drivers who speed or breach construction or utility work zones face fines of $500 to $1,000. Construction, maintenance, or repair must be underway, with workers on site. Construction zones must have temporary traffic control devices; active utility work zones must have temporary traffic control signs. Traffic violations in designated highway safety corridors carry separate penalties: $750 to $1,000, up to 30 days in jail, or both. A different penalty applies when another law specifically provides one.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Dennis Bamburg Jr.

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 147 • No: 0

Senate vote • 6/2/2025

Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 39 • No: 0

House vote • 5/6/2025

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

Yes: 97 • No: 0

House vote • 4/28/2025

Reported favorably

Yes: 11 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 202.

    6/8/2025House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2025.

    6/8/2025House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/5/2025House

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

    6/4/2025House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/4/2025Senate

  6. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    6/3/2025House

  7. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 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 Transportation, Highways and Public Works.

    5/8/2025Senate

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

    5/7/2025Senate

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

    5/6/2025House

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2025.

    5/5/2025House

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

    4/29/2025House

  16. Reported favorably (11-0).

    4/28/2025House

  17. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.

    4/14/2025House

  18. Prefiled.

    4/4/2025House

  19. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.

    4/4/2025House

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