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LouisianaHB 502025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

DISTRICTS/CRIME PREVENT: Provides relative to the Lake Vista Crime Prevention District in Orleans Parish

Sponsored By: Stephanie Hilferty (Republican)

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Local and Municipal AffairsMunicipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Broader powers for Lake Vista security

Lake Vista's district works to prevent crime and promote security, without requiring a specific service or more patrols. Its boundaries follow the center lines of Allen Toussaint Boulevard, Marconi Drive, Beauregard Avenue, and Lakeshore Drive. The boundary wording replaces Robert E. Lee Boulevard with Allen Toussaint Boulevard. The board can contract with individuals or public or private groups beyond patrol services, and buy or lease needed supplies. It must adopt an annual budget under Louisiana's Local Government Budget Act; city approval of budgets and amendments is no longer required.

Lake Vista security services stay supplemental

District patrols, services, and improvements must add to—not replace—services provided by Louisiana, New Orleans, or other local governments. If the district ends, its board must transfer all district funds to New Orleans. The city must keep that money and other funds collected under this law in a separate account. The money can be used only to support security in the district area.

Higher, longer-lasting Lake Vista property fees

The law raises Lake Vista's annual parcel fee cap from $220 to $400, but does not set the actual charge. Owners pay for covered single-family, two-family, multiple-dwelling, and apartment parcels, including covered vacant residential parcels. New Orleans can impose and collect the fee only after approval by a majority of district voters casting ballots. Fee elections must follow Louisiana election law but no longer need to coincide with regular city elections. The district board can change the fee by resolution, without exceeding $400 per parcel each year. Initial and voter-approved renewal terms can last up to eight years, rather than four, as stated in each ballot proposition.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Stephanie Hilferty

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 145 • No: 1

Senate vote • 5/29/2025

Rules suspended. 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 • 5/5/2025

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 91 • No: 1

House vote • 4/24/2025

Reported favorably

Yes: 16 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Becomes Act No. 306 without the Governor's signature.

    6/16/2025House

  2. Effective date: 06/24/2025.

    6/16/2025House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/3/2025House

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

    6/2/2025House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/2/2025Senate

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

    5/29/2025Senate

  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/29/2025House

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

    5/28/2025Senate

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

    5/27/2025Senate

  10. Rules suspended. Reported favorably.

    5/21/2025Senate

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

    5/6/2025Senate

  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/5/2025House

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

    5/5/2025Senate

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

    4/28/2025House

  15. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2025.

    4/28/2025House

  16. Reported favorably (16-0).

    4/24/2025House

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

    4/14/2025House

  18. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/14/2025.

    3/14/2025House

  19. Prefiled.

    3/10/2025House

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

    3/10/2025House

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