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LouisianaHB 8642026 Regular SessionHouse

HIGHWAYS: Authorizes municipalities to establish fire limits and to prohibit the storage, placement, accumulation, abandonment, or use of certain materials within the right-of-way of certain public structures

Sponsored By: Alonzo L. Knox (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Local and Municipal AffairsMunicipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Local fire limits, permits, and fines

Louisiana parishes and municipalities can set fire limits and ban storing, placing, piling up, abandoning, or using flammable, explosive, or combustible materials above ground within the right-of-way of public bridges, overpasses, viaducts, or tunnels. They can approve these materials for permitted events, but permits or agreements must follow state and federal laws and regulations. The law exempts infrastructure owned or operated by member-owned electric cooperatives or investor-owned utilities regulated by the Louisiana Public Service Commission or New Orleans’s governing authority. It also protects temporary, attended activities using approved equipment or materials when legally authorized and compliant with state, federal, parish, municipal, fire, health, traffic, public-safety, and right-of-way requirements. Anyone who knowingly and willfully violates the section or rules, regulations, or orders issued under it can face a civil fine of up to $1,000 per violation; the fine is not automatic.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 243 • No: 2

House vote • 5/29/2026

Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 96 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/26/2026

Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. 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 • 4/28/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 96 • No: 2

House vote • 4/9/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 16 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 849.

    6/8/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/8/2026House

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/1/2026Senate

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/1/2026House

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

    5/31/2026House

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

    5/29/2026House

  7. Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.

    5/27/2026House

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

    5/26/2026Senate

  9. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    5/26/2026House

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

    5/20/2026Senate

  11. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/19/2026Senate

  12. Reported with amendments.

    5/18/2026Senate

  13. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs.

    5/4/2026Senate

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

    4/29/2026Senate

  15. Called from the calendar.

    4/28/2026House

  16. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/28/2026House

  17. Notice given.

    4/27/2026House

  18. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2026.

    4/27/2026House

  19. Called from the calendar.

    4/22/2026House

  20. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    4/22/2026House

  21. Called from the calendar.

    4/20/2026House

  22. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    4/20/2026House

  23. Notice given.

    4/20/2026House

  24. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/22/2026.

    4/20/2026House

  25. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    4/15/2026House

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