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LouisianaHB 7552026 Regular SessionHouse

PUBLIC CONTRACTS: Establishes indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity professional services contracting for design services for certain projects (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Sponsored By: Christopher Turner (Republican)

Signed by Governor

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Louisiana agencies get capped design contract options

Louisiana agencies can hire design professionals under one master contract and issue separate work orders for different projects. These contracts cannot cover new-building design. Each contract lasts no more than two years, with total fees capped at $1 million. Each renovation work order is capped at $13 million. Amendments needed to finish ongoing projects can raise total contract value, but fees must stay within $1 million. These amendments are allowed during the two-year term and after the contract expires. Agencies notify the Division of Administration, which reviews the services needed; a committee designates the professional selection board. That board publishes a one-time notice in the official state journal. The notice lists the agency, services, application instructions and deadlines, term limits, maximum contract value, fee method, and selection count. Applicants can submit their experience, past and current projects, workload, and key staff; boards can use standard forms. Agencies must keep at least two contracts active. With only one, they must seek another selection at the next available board; failure to comply blocks further work orders. The existing contracting rules generally exclude projects with estimated construction budgets of $1 million or less, subject to existing statutory exceptions. Other design contracts remain valid, including design-build and construction-manager-at-risk contracts.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Christopher Turner

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 150 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/28/2026

Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 33 • No: 0

House vote • 4/7/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 100 • No: 0

House vote • 3/30/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 17 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 831.

    6/8/2026House

  2. Effective date: 06/08/2026.

    6/8/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/1/2026House

  4. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/31/2026Senate

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

    5/29/2026House

  6. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/28/2026Senate

  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/28/2026House

  8. Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/27/2026Senate

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

    5/27/2026Senate

  10. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance.

    4/13/2026Senate

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

    4/8/2026Senate

  12. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/7/2026House

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

    4/1/2026House

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

    3/31/2026House

  15. Reported favorably (17-0).

    3/30/2026House

  16. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

    3/9/2026House

  17. Prefiled.

    2/27/2026House

  18. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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