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LouisianaHB 8562026 Regular SessionHouse

TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Provides relative to Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity Construction Phase Contract (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)

Sponsored By: Bryan Fontenot (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.

Louisiana expands road construction contracting options

Louisiana transportation agencies can use master contracts for road and bridge construction, maintenance, repairs, and related work. Agency leaders must find that this serves the public interest. Agencies can select one or several contractors using the lowest qualified bid or a stated mix of price and quality. With several contractors, work orders require competition; price must be significant in best-value awards, which need legal authority and federal approval when federally funded. Outside the usual public bidding process, notices must request letters of interest at least 10 business days before the deadline. Responding contractors then receive requests for proposals; agencies can repeat notices when responses are insufficient and can waive bid bonds. Contracts can include price increases or decreases, minimum purchase amounts, and agency-supplied materials. Standalone design and consulting contracts are excluded, but construction-supporting services can be included. Federal requirements control federally funded projects, and other state procurement rules still apply unless this law conflicts. Agencies can issue contracting guidance outside the state's formal rulemaking process and adopt formal rules to carry out the law.

Public access to road bids delayed

Contract proposals and evaluation records stay private until the master construction contract is fully signed or the procurement is canceled. Public-records laws then apply, but trade secrets and other legally protected information can remain private. Evaluation committee meetings are exempt from Louisiana's Open Meetings Law.

Road contracts face limits and safeguards

Master construction contracts cannot last more than five years, including extensions; agencies choose terms within that limit. Signing a master contract does not authorize construction: each job needs a work order or similar approval. Payment, performance, and retainage bonds, warranties, and other construction safeguards generally apply to each work order, not the whole contract. Bonds are generally due when the work order is signed; delay damages follow its completion date, and agencies set insurance requirements. A contract, work order, or special provision can set a different rule; these safeguards also cover low-bid master contracts.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Bryan Fontenot

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Francis C. Thompson

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 249 • No: 0

House vote • 5/27/2026

Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 97 • 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 • 3/23/2026

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 • 3/16/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 16 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 678.

    6/1/2026House

  2. Effective date: 06/01/2026.

    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 97, 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 with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. 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.

    3/25/2026Senate

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

    3/24/2026Senate

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

    3/23/2026House

  16. Scheduled for floor debate on 03/23/2026.

    3/18/2026House

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

    3/17/2026House

  18. Reported with amendments (16-0).

    3/16/2026House

  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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