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LouisianaHB 6382026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

CONTRACTORS: Provides relative to payments to contractors and subcontractors

Sponsored By: Jacob Jules Landry (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary ACivil Law and Procedure

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Owners get limited extra payment time

A written contract for building or improving a single-family home can allow up to 61 days after a payment request. Amounts unpaid after that deadline incur the law's late-payment penalty. Otherwise, agreements to waive these payment protections are invalid. For qualifying loan-funded work, owners can pay by the later of 35 days after the request or five days after receiving loan proceeds. The owner must obtain the loan before the payment request and properly request the funds on time.

Owners face deadlines for construction payments

Louisiana owners must pay covered written construction requests within 35 days, including requests for work on residential property. Covered payments include properly completed work and properly stored or specially made materials; lawful or contract-based holdbacks are excluded. Separate payment duties and penalties for public-entity contracts remain in place. Exclusions cover specified oil, gas, mineral and chemical agreements, well or mine services, and pipeline or fixed-facility purchase, sale, gathering, storage or transport of hydrocarbons. Related work and services are also excluded, whether agreements are oral or written, including exploration, drilling, repairs, testing, production, transport and maintenance.

Contractors must pass payments along quickly

After receiving payment, contractors must pay subcontractors and suppliers their covered share within seven days. This covers properly completed work and properly stored or specially made materials, including their share of accrued interest. Subcontractors have the same seven-day duty after receiving payment from a contractor. Owners, contractors and subcontractors with a good-faith dispute must still pay the undisputed amount by the applicable deadline. A dispute can concern whether work meets the contract's requirements.

Late construction payments bring penalties and lawsuits

Covered overdue amounts without a good-faith dispute incur a 1.5% monthly penalty, starting the day after payment is due. Penalties stop at the earliest of payment delivery, qualifying mailing, or a court judgment under this law. Mailing stops penalties on the mailing date only when payment arrives within three days. Contractors, subcontractors and suppliers can sue for payments and penalties; the winning party receives court costs and reasonable attorney fees. These remedies add to existing rights, but this law creates no right to sue a lender or insurer.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Jacob Jules Landry

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 237 • No: 0

House vote • 5/27/2026

Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 98 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/21/2026

Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 36 • No: 0

House vote • 4/13/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 95 • No: 0

House vote • 4/7/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 8 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 822.

    6/8/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/8/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/1/2026House

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

    5/28/2026House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/28/2026Senate

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

    5/27/2026House

  7. Scheduled for concurrence on 05/27/2026.

    5/26/2026House

  8. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    5/25/2026House

  9. Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/21/2026Senate

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

    5/14/2026Senate

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

    5/13/2026Senate

  12. Reported with amendments.

    5/12/2026Senate

  13. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.

    4/15/2026Senate

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

    4/14/2026Senate

  15. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/13/2026House

  16. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/13/2026.

    4/9/2026House

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

    4/8/2026House

  18. Reported with amendments (8-0).

    4/7/2026House

  19. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.

    3/9/2026House

  20. Prefiled.

    2/27/2026House

  21. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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