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LouisianaSB 1222026 Regular SessionSenate

TRANSPORTATION/DEV DEPT: Provides for bridge maintenance by the Department of Transportation and Development. (8/1/26)

Sponsored By: Michael "Big Mike" Fesi (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Transportation, Highways and Public Works

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

New upkeep and oversight for Louisiana bridges

Beginning August 1, 2026, Louisiana’s transportation department must inspect state highway bridges and other bridges covered by state law. Covered bridges include overpasses, culverts, related structures, and their structural, load-bearing, safety, and operating parts. The department must operate, maintain, repair, restore, preserve, and replace bridges it owns. It must oversee work to improve safety, address deterioration, extend bridge life, and handle emergency repairs. These duties exclude bridges owned or operated by other state agencies, local governments, special districts, toll authorities, or the federal government, unless another law provides otherwise. By October 1, 2026, the department must report on bridge conditions to both legislative transportation committees at a joint public meeting. The report must include the bridge count, each bridge’s condition, type, parish, maintenance funding sources, and National Bridge Inventory rating standards. Beginning January 1, 2027, the department must present proposed preservation plans for all bridges it maintains twice each year. These presentations go to both committees at a joint meeting; the law sets no funding amount or required spending level.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Michael "Big Mike" Fesi

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 136 • No: 0

House vote • 5/6/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 89 • No: 0

House vote • 4/27/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 12 • No: 0

Senate vote • 3/25/2026

Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 35 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 245.

    5/15/2026Senate

  2. Effective date 8/1/2026.

    5/15/2026Senate

  3. Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate.

    5/13/2026Senate

  4. Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/12/2026Senate

  5. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/12/2026House

  6. Received from the House with amendments.

    5/7/2026Senate

  7. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    5/6/2026House

  8. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2026.

    5/5/2026House

  9. Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.

    4/29/2026House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    4/28/2026House

  11. Reported with amendments (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    4/27/2026House

  12. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.

    3/31/2026House

  13. Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.

    3/30/2026House

  14. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    3/25/2026Senate

  15. Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.

    3/23/2026Senate

  16. Reported favorably.

    3/18/2026Senate

  17. Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.

    3/9/2026Senate

  18. Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.

    2/23/2026Senate

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