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LouisianaHB 902026 Regular SessionHouse

DISTRICTS/SPECIAL: Provides relative to the Ferriday Downtown Entertainment District

Sponsored By: C. Travis Johnson (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Local and Municipal AffairsMunicipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Ferriday district expands and changes leadership

The law sets Ferriday Downtown Entertainment District's boundaries at Texas Avenue, EE Wallace Boulevard, Mickey Gilley Avenue, and First Street. It also includes both sides of Greater Street, even outside that boundary. The district's board grows from seven to nine members. Four seats are appointed by the House District 21 representative, Senate District 34 senator, Concordia Parish Sheriff's Department, and Delta Recreation's governing board. These four members draw lots at their first meeting to set their initial terms. Two serve three years, one serves two years, and one serves one year; later terms last three years. Existing members appointed through the unchanged appointment sources finish their terms, and their successors serve three-year terms. The Concordia Bank & Trust and Delta Bank appointees' terms end on the law's effective date. They stay in office until the new House and Senate appointees take office. The law does not specify a direct household payment, tax, or benefit.

Sheriff officers can patrol Ferriday district

Concordia Parish sheriff's officers can patrol and make arrests within the Ferriday Downtown Entertainment District. This district-specific authority ends if the district ceases to exist. The law does not specify a direct household payment or cost.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • C. Travis Johnson

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 131 • No: 15

Senate vote • 5/12/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 34 • No: 0

House vote • 4/1/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 83, nays 15. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 83 • No: 15

House vote • 3/26/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 14 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 118.

    5/15/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/15/2026House

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/14/2026Senate

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/14/2026House

  5. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/13/2026House

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

    5/13/2026House

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/12/2026Senate

  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.

    4/7/2026Senate

  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 83, nays 15. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/1/2026House

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

    4/1/2026Senate

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

    3/31/2026House

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

    3/30/2026House

  16. Reported with amendments (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. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/6/2026.

    2/6/2026House

  19. Prefiled.

    2/5/2026House

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

    2/5/2026House

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