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LouisianaHB 7182026 Regular SessionHouse

LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides a limitation of liability to a landowner who authorizes the free use of his private property for aeronautical activities at nonpublic use airports

Sponsored By: Ryan Bourriaque (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary ACivil Law and Procedure

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Bill Overview

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1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Private airport owners get emergency-landing liability protection

Louisiana law limits private airport owners’ legal responsibility for loss or damage to people on their property during aircraft emergency landings. This protects qualifying owners but limits injured people’s ability to recover payment from them. The airport must mainly serve its owner, with others allowed to use it without an admission fee. Donations and contributions to cover costs do not count as admission fees. Protection excludes harm caused by a willful or malicious failure to warn about a dangerous condition, use, structure, or activity. Commercial recreation sites are excluded, whether they charge for access or not. Covered owners include tenants, occupants, and others controlling the property, not just landowners. For recreational leases to government or private parties, protection applies unless the parties agree otherwise in writing. Land users must still use reasonable care and face legal consequences for failing to do so.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Ryan Bourriaque

    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 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 100 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/21/2026

Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. 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 • 4/7/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 101 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 826.

    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 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 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.

    4/8/2026Senate

  14. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/7/2026House

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

    4/7/2026Senate

  16. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/07/2026.

    4/1/2026House

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

    3/31/2026House

  18. Reported favorably (5-0-1).

    3/30/2026House

  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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