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LouisianaHB 5322025 Regular SessionHouse

ELECTIONS/BOND & TAX: Provides relative to sales and use tax elections in certain municipalities (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)

Sponsored By: Dustin Miller (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Senate and Governmental AffairsHouse and Governmental Affairs

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Temporary Saturday tax votes for qualifying towns

The law creates a temporary option for Louisiana municipalities to hold sales and use tax elections on otherwise unavailable Saturdays. Only municipalities with more than 15,000 and fewer than 16,000 people qualify, based on the latest federal decennial census. The tax must expire before an election can be called on a regular legal date. Approval requires two-thirds of the State Bond Commission's total membership, plus the governor and secretary of state. The option is repealed effective December 31, 2025, restoring the regular election-date rules. The law also requires local governing authorities to call tax elections when written petitions have signatures from one-fourth of qualified voters. It does not itself extend a tax or change its rate.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Dustin Miller

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 136 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/13/2025

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 • 4/28/2025

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 89 • No: 0

House vote • 4/16/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 9 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 6.

    5/20/2025House

  2. Effective date: See Act.

    5/20/2025House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/15/2025House

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

    5/14/2025House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/14/2025Senate

  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.

    5/13/2025Senate

  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/13/2025House

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

    5/12/2025Senate

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

    5/8/2025Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/7/2025Senate

  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs.

    4/30/2025Senate

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

    4/29/2025Senate

  13. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/28/2025House

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2025.

    4/24/2025House

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

    4/22/2025House

  16. Reported with amendments (9-0).

    4/16/2025House

  17. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.

    4/14/2025House

  18. Prefiled.

    4/4/2025House

  19. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.

    4/4/2025House

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