PRIA Logo™
LouisianaHB 8922026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

DISTRICTS/ECONOMIC DEVEL: Creates the West End Economic Development District in the parishes of Jefferson and Orleans

Sponsored By: Stephanie Hilferty (Republican)

Became Law

Local and Municipal AffairsMunicipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs

Personalized for You

How does this bill affect your finances?

Personalize government policy and PRIA will tell you what this bill means for your household, plus every other piece of legislation we track. PRIA reads each provision against your financial profile to show you exactly what matters to your wallet.

Free to download

Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

West End shoppers face optional sales tax

Beginning July 1, 2026, the West End district board can adopt a sales and use tax up to 2%. The board must adopt it by resolution at a uniform rate throughout the district; the law itself imposes no tax. Any adopted tax adds up to 2 percentage points to existing taxes on covered goods, digital products, rentals, and services. Covered uses also include consumption, distribution, and storage for use or consumption, with collection following state sales tax rules. Revenue must serve only district benefits and authorized development and infrastructure projects in the law’s defined funding area. That area includes specified lakefront lands and water bottoms, a line 3,000 feet north of the levee, and adjacent private lands.

New district supports West End development

Beginning July 1, 2026, the law creates a public development district in parts of Jefferson and Orleans parishes. Its five parcels cover 3.368, 2.998, 0.437, 0.315, and 1.217 acres. The district can promote business growth, tourism, jobs, and infrastructure projects, including public-benefit infrastructure outside its boundaries. Jefferson Parish appoints two board members representing District 5; New Orleans appoints two representing District A. The president of New Orleans’ governing authority appoints the fifth member. Members serve five-year terms, after initial staggered terms of one through five years; replacements finish the vacant term. The board must adopt bylaws and elect officers, and it can hire staff and set their pay. The district can accept grants and donations, make agreements, and buy, lease, or dispose of property for its purposes. The law provides no direct household payment or guaranteed job.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Stephanie Hilferty

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

  • Barbara Reich Freiberg

    Republican • House

  • Beth Anne Billings

    Republican • House

  • C. Denise Marcelle

    Democratic • House

  • Dana Henry

    Democratic • House

  • Ed Murray

    Democratic • House

  • Jessica Domangue

    Republican • House

  • Kim Carver

    Republican • House

  • Michael Robert Bayham Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Paul Sawyer

    Republican • House

  • Rodney Lyons

    Democratic • House

  • Vincent E. Cox III

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 142 • No: 3

Senate vote • 5/13/2026

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 • 4/1/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 3. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 93 • No: 3

House vote • 3/26/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 14 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Becomes Act No. 590 without the Governor's signature.

    6/1/2026House

  2. Effective date: 07/01/2026.

    6/1/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/19/2026House

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

    5/18/2026House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/18/2026Senate

  6. 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.

    5/13/2026Senate

  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/13/2026House

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

    5/5/2026Senate

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

    5/4/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    4/29/2026Senate

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

    4/8/2026Senate

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

    4/7/2026Senate

  13. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 3. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/1/2026House

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/01/2026.

    3/31/2026House

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

    3/30/2026House

  16. Reported favorably (14-0).

    3/26/2026House

  17. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.

    3/9/2026House

  18. Prefiled.

    2/27/2026House

  19. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

Bill Text

Related Bills

Back to State Legislation