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LouisianaHB 6132025 Regular SessionHouse

AIRCRAFT/AIRPORTS: Creates the Iberia Parish Airport Authority

Sponsored By: Gerald "Beau" Beaullieu IV (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Transportation, Highways and Public Works

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Iberia Parish gets an airport district

The law establishes the Acadiana Regional Airport and LeMaire Memorial Airport District as a Louisiana political subdivision. It comes into existence only after approval by a majority of the Iberia Parish Council and the Federal Aviation Administration. Its boundaries match Iberia Parish, and its legal home and offices must be there. The district needs prior Parish Council approval before proposing any tax. The law itself does not impose a tax or set a tax amount.

Iberia airport board gets membership rules

The Parish Council appoints seven unpaid commissioners who must be U.S. citizens and Iberia Parish residents. At least two must live in New Iberia and one in Jeanerette. Members need experience useful to airport operations, such as aviation, business, finance, engineering, law, or management. Full-time local-government employees cannot serve. Current airport board members can finish their terms and serve up to three additional five-year terms. Service of four or more years counts as a full five-year term toward the limit. The council fills vacancies for the remaining term and can remove and replace members by majority vote. A board majority can also remove a member for cause. The board elects a chair, vice chair, secretary, and treasurer; one person can hold the last two offices. It sets meeting rules, meets monthly, and can hold special meetings. Four members form a quorum; items need a majority of those present, and the chair can vote.

Airport district gains control and obligations

The district gains operating powers when the Federal Aviation Administration issues its certificate granting operating authority under Part 139. It can run the airports, plan improvements, make public and private contracts, and manage state and federal airport grants. It can take exclusive control of airport facilities and land, plus related contracts, cash, amounts owed, and movable assets. It can also assume airport debt, including revenue bonds; transferred land keeps existing liens and use limits. The responsible local government cannot undermine district powers or risk breaking rate or bond promises. It needs district consent before selling, transferring, pledging, or disposing of airport facilities, plus federal aviation consent when required. It must take reasonable steps to fix title defects in transferred facilities. The law states no grant, asset, or debt amounts.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Gerald "Beau" Beaullieu IV

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 134 • No: 1

Senate vote • 6/1/2025

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 • 5/14/2025

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 89 • No: 1

House vote • 5/12/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 10 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 211.

    6/8/2025House

  2. Effective date: 06/08/2025.

    6/8/2025House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/5/2025House

  4. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/4/2025Senate

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

    6/3/2025House

  6. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    6/2/2025House

  7. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    6/1/2025Senate

  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. Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.

    5/19/2025Senate

  12. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/14/2025House

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

    5/13/2025House

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

    5/13/2025House

  15. Reported with amendments (10-0).

    5/12/2025House

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

    4/16/2025House

  17. Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

    4/15/2025House

  18. Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date.

    4/14/2025House

  19. Prefiled.

    4/4/2025House

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

    4/4/2025House

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