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LouisianaHB 9902026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Provides for a privilege in favor of parishes, sewerage districts, and waterworks districts for certain unpaid service charges or user fees

Sponsored By: Rodney Lyons (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, 1 costs, 0 mixed.

Rental property owners face unpaid utility liens

The law lets parishes, municipalities, sewerage districts, and waterworks districts record property liens for unpaid water or sewage service charges. This includes user fees for services they provide. It applies only to properties with more than four dwelling units occupied by people other than the owner. The property must use master-meter service: one meter or a group measuring total usage for the property or multiple units. Owners have 30 days to pay after a written demand, and payments must reduce the balance owed. After that deadline, the local entity can record a sworn, detailed lien statement in the property's parish mortgage records. An official who knows about the unpaid charges must sign and verify it. The lien secures unpaid charges and fees, plus interest at the legal rate from the date due.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Rodney Lyons

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 144 • No: 1

Senate vote • 5/21/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 35 • No: 1

House vote • 4/23/2026

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

Yes: 97 • No: 0

House vote • 4/20/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 12 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 575.

    5/29/2026House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

    5/29/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/26/2026House

  4. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/25/2026House

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

    5/25/2026House

  6. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/25/2026Senate

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/21/2026Senate

  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 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, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. 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 (12-0).

    4/20/2026House

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

    3/24/2026House

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

    3/23/2026House

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