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LouisianaHB 8932026 Regular SessionHouse

SEWERAGE/N O WATER BD: Provides relative to the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board

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.

New Orleans utility board changes purchasing

The New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board follows state purchasing rules for system materials and supplies costing more than $30,000. Purchases up to $30,000 require at least three quotes by phone, fax, email, or another electronic method. Accepted phone offers need written confirmation in the purchase file. Recorded quotes below the accepted price must be handled under state rules. The law also removes the board’s required preference for local merchants. During emergencies, the executive director or general superintendent can contract for supplies and materials up to $30,000, increased from $10,000. Written consent from the board president pro tempore or New Orleans mayor is required. Each emergency purchase and its reasons must be reported at the board’s next meeting.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 137 • No: 2

Senate vote • 5/26/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 32 • No: 0

House vote • 4/23/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 90 • No: 2

House vote • 4/20/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 15 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 851.

    6/9/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    6/9/2026House

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/27/2026Senate

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/27/2026House

  5. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/26/2026Senate

  6. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/26/2026House

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

    5/26/2026House

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

    5/20/2026Senate

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

    5/19/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/18/2026Senate

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

    4/28/2026Senate

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

    4/27/2026Senate

  13. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/23/2026House

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/23/2026.

    4/22/2026House

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

    4/21/2026House

  16. Reported favorably (15-0).

    4/20/2026House

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

    4/1/2026House

  18. Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

    3/31/2026House

  19. Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date.

    2/27/2026House

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

    2/27/2026House

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