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LouisianaHB 6062026 Regular SessionHouse

HIGHWAYS: Modifies regulations pertaining to personal delivery devices

Sponsored By: Ryan Bourriaque (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Transportation, Highways and Public Works

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Delivery devices gain rights with safety duties

Delivery devices have the same legal rights and duties as pedestrians or bicyclists in the same situation. Duties do not apply when they cannot fit a device or would unreasonably burden its operation. Businesses must operate the devices, which must use automated driving technology with human supervision. A business agent meeting state requirements must monitor or control each device. Devices must yield to other lawful traffic, including pedestrians, and cannot obstruct rights-of-way or unreasonably interfere with traffic. They cannot carry federally regulated hazardous materials that require warning placards. Local governments can regulate or permit devices through ordinances or resolutions, replacing their former authority to prohibit them. Local rules must serve public safety, cannot conflict with state delivery-device law, and must be followed by operators.

Delivery businesses gain routes with speed limits

Louisiana allows businesses to operate powered cargo delivery devices weighing less than 500 pounds, excluding cargo, and traveling no faster than 20 mph. Allowed pedestrian areas include sidewalks, crosswalks, school crossings and crossing zones, safety zones, parking lots, and similar spaces. Devices can also use bike lanes, shoulders, and roadsides where posted speed limits are 55 mph or less. Devices cannot exceed 20 mph in these nonpedestrian areas. The law removes bans on crossing divided highways, intersection-only crossing rules, and a separate intersection-speed rule. It also removes the state-law requirement for devices to display lights at night.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Ryan Bourriaque

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 234 • No: 0

House vote • 5/20/2026

Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 92 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/12/2026

Rules suspended. The amended bill was 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 • 3/23/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 94 • No: 0

House vote • 3/16/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 13 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 437.

    5/29/2026House

  2. Effective date: 05/29/2026.

    5/29/2026House

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

    5/25/2026House

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/22/2026House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/21/2026Senate

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

    5/20/2026House

  7. Scheduled for concurrence on 05/20/2026.

    5/19/2026House

  8. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    5/13/2026House

  9. Rules suspended. The amended bill was 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

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

    5/5/2026Senate

  11. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/4/2026Senate

  12. Reported with amendments.

    4/29/2026Senate

  13. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.

    3/24/2026Senate

  14. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    3/23/2026House

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

    3/23/2026Senate

  16. Scheduled for floor debate on 03/23/2026.

    3/18/2026House

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

    3/17/2026House

  18. Reported favorably (13-0).

    3/16/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

  21. Prefiled.

    2/26/2026House

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

    2/26/2026House

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