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LouisianaHB 7262026 Regular SessionHouse

BOATS/SHIPS/VESSELS: Increases fines for abandoning vessels

Sponsored By: Jessica Domangue (Republican)

Signed by Governor

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Double penalties for abandoning boats

Louisiana law doubles gross-littering penalties for anyone who intentionally abandons a boat or other vessel. Existing disposal bans still cover public places, state waters, and land the person does not own. Authorized disposal at government-designated disposal sites remains allowed.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Jessica Domangue

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Barbara Reich Freiberg

    Republican • House

  • Brian Leonard Glorioso

    Republican • House

  • Chasity Martinez

    Democratic • House

  • Dixon Wallace McMakin

    Republican • House

  • Jacob Jules Landry

    Republican • House

  • Jerome Zeringue

    Republican • House

  • John E. Wyble

    Republican • House

  • Joy Walters

    Democratic • House

  • Ken Brass

    Democratic • House

  • Kim Carver

    Republican • House

  • Michael Robert Bayham Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Paul Sawyer

    Republican • House

  • Peter F. Egan Sr.

    Republican • House

  • Phillip DeVillier

    Republican • House

  • R. Dewith Carrier

    Republican • House

  • Rhonda Gaye Butler

    Republican • House

  • Stephanie H. Berault

    Republican • House

  • Vincent E. Cox III

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 149 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/26/2026

Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 38 • No: 0

House vote • 3/30/2026

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

House vote • 3/24/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 10 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 667.

    6/2/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/2/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/28/2026House

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

    5/27/2026House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/27/2026Senate

  6. Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.

    5/26/2026Senate

  7. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/26/2026Senate

  8. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/26/2026House

  9. Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.

    5/5/2026Senate

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

    4/21/2026Senate

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

    4/20/2026Senate

  12. Reported favorably.

    4/15/2026Senate

  13. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.

    3/31/2026Senate

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

    3/30/2026House

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

    3/30/2026Senate

  16. Scheduled for floor debate on 03/30/2026.

    3/26/2026House

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

    3/25/2026House

  18. Reported favorably (10-0).

    3/24/2026House

  19. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.

    3/9/2026House

  20. Prefiled.

    2/27/2026House

  21. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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