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LouisianaHB 852025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

BUILDING CODES: Provides relative to permits for construction (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

Sponsored By: Foy Bryan Gadberry (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Commerce, Consumer Protection and International AffairsCommerce

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Louisiana requires permits and inspections for roofs

Louisiana municipalities and parishes that issue construction permits under the state construction code must permit and inspect roofing work. This covers both roof construction and reroofing. One- and two-family homes must meet International Residential Code Chapters 8 and 9. Other buildings must meet International Building Code Chapter 15. These requirements use the code versions adopted by the Louisiana State Uniform Construction Code Council.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Foy Bryan Gadberry

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 152 • No: 1

Senate vote • 6/8/2025

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 39 • No: 0

House vote • 5/19/2025

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 98 • No: 1

House vote • 5/13/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 15 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 239.

    6/11/2025House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2025.

    6/11/2025House

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

    6/9/2025House

  4. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/9/2025Senate

  5. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/9/2025House

  6. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    6/8/2025Senate

  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    6/8/2025House

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

    6/4/2025Senate

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

    6/4/2025Senate

  10. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs.

    5/21/2025Senate

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

    5/20/2025Senate

  12. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/19/2025House

  13. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2025.

    5/15/2025House

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

    5/14/2025House

  15. Reported with amendments (15-0).

    5/13/2025House

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

    4/14/2025House

  17. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/21/2025.

    3/21/2025House

  18. Prefiled.

    3/20/2025House

  19. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce.

    3/20/2025House

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