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LouisianaHB 6922026 Regular SessionHouse

PUBLIC CONTRACTS: Provides relative to local government subdivisions entering into an agreement with group purchasing organizations

Sponsored By: Reese "Skip" Broussard (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.

Local governments gain group buying options

Louisiana local governments can buy materials, equipment, supplies, services, and related installation directly from or through qualified purchasing groups. They can make agreements with one or more groups. For-profit or nonprofit groups qualify with at least two local governments that participate or vote as members and seek vendor bids or proposals. The law also recognizes outside purchasing activities defined by state procurement law. Listed prices must stay in effect for at least three months. Purchases must cost less than the state contract or bid-list price for the same or substantially similar items. Purchases also qualify when those items are not on either state list. Buying from other vendors still requires the usual state purchasing process.

Public access to purchasing prices narrows

A qualified purchasing group's submitted price list is not a public record and is closed to public inspection. The agreement establishing the list and its effective date remain public records. Prices for items being bought become public when bids open or the purchase contract is signed.

Governments can skip single-source bidding

Louisiana public buyers can award contracts without competing bids when only one source exists for a required supply, service, or major repair. The chief procurement officer or a designee above the procurement-officer level must make that finding in writing. Applicable regulations must authorize the decision.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Reese "Skip" Broussard

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 246 • No: 0

House vote • 5/27/2026

Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 100 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/20/2026

Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. 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 • 4/13/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 98 • No: 0

House vote • 4/7/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 13 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 665.

    6/1/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/1/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/29/2026House

  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 100, 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. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. 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

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

    5/13/2026Senate

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

    5/12/2026Senate

  12. Reported with amendments.

    5/11/2026Senate

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

    4/14/2026Senate

  14. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/13/2026House

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

    4/13/2026Senate

  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 (13-0).

    4/7/2026House

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

    3/9/2026House

  20. Prefiled.

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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