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LouisianaHB 6552026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

BRIDGES/FERRIES: Authorizes the Department of Transportation and Development to enter into contracts for the operation and maintenance of ferry systems

Sponsored By: Jacob Braud (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Transportation, Highways and Public Works

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Cost limits on Louisiana ferry charges

Louisiana's transportation department can set and collect ferry or transfer charges. It must set rates reasonably expected to raise no more money than the services cost to provide. The law sets no specific fare or dollar limit.

More contracting options for Louisiana ferries

Louisiana's transportation department can control, operate, maintain, and regulate ferries, barges, similar transport, and related facilities needed for safe, adequate, efficient public travel. It can contract in the state's name, alone or jointly with Louisiana parishes or municipalities, other states, or their local governments. For department-owned ferries, barges, and similar transport, it can award cost-plus contracts for operation or maintenance. The department must determine that these contracts serve the state's best interest. These contracts are exempt from the procurement rules in R.S. 38:2221 and R.S. 48:255.4.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Jacob Braud

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 131 • No: 8

Senate vote • 5/20/2026

Rules suspended. 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 • 4/20/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 84, nays 8. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 84 • No: 8

House vote • 4/13/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 12 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 415.

    5/27/2026House

  2. Effective date: 05/27/2026.

    5/27/2026House

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

    5/25/2026House

  4. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/25/2026House

  5. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/22/2026House

  6. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/21/2026Senate

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

    5/20/2026Senate

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

    5/13/2026Senate

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

    5/12/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/11/2026Senate

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

    4/21/2026Senate

  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 84, nays 8. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/20/2026House

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

    4/20/2026Senate

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/20/2026.

    4/15/2026House

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

    4/14/2026House

  16. Reported favorably (12-0).

    4/13/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

  18. Prefiled.

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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