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LouisianaHB 8602026 Regular SessionHouse

CONTRACTS/BIDS: Authorizes the use of fillable form to receive electronic public bids

Sponsored By: Jacob Braud (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Transportation, Highways and Public Works

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Contractors gain fillable electronic bid forms

Louisiana public entities can receive public works bids through electronic bidding platforms using fillable forms. These forms must include all text and fields in the required Louisiana Uniform Bid Form. Public entities cannot add bidder requirements or fields to the electronic form, but formatting differences are allowed. At bid opening, required submissions are limited to bid security or a bid bond; acknowledgment of addenda; base bid; alternates; bidder signature, name, title, and address; firm or joint venture name; proof of signing authority; Louisiana contractor license number; and unit prices with descriptions when used. Building projects can use unit prices only when those prices and their extended totals are included in the base bid or alternates. Added information requirements beyond state or federal mandates are void and cannot affect the contract award. Bidders can make timely changes before submission by crossing out and initialing them; those changes are binding. The act takes effect upon the governor's signature or expiration of the constitutional signing period; following a veto override, it takes effect the next day.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Jacob Braud

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 145 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/20/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 35 • No: 0

House vote • 4/13/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 97 • No: 0

House vote • 4/7/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 13 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 442.

    5/29/2026House

  2. Effective date: 05/29/2026.

    5/29/2026House

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

    5/25/2026House

  4. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/25/2026House

  5. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/22/2026House

  6. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/21/2026Senate

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/20/2026Senate

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

    5/13/2026Senate

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

    5/12/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/11/2026Senate

  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.

    4/15/2026Senate

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

    4/14/2026Senate

  13. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/13/2026House

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

    4/9/2026House

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

    4/8/2026House

  16. Reported favorably (13-0).

    4/7/2026House

  17. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.

    3/9/2026House

  18. Prefiled.

    2/27/2026House

  19. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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