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LouisianaSB 1652026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to the Self-Service Storage Facility Act. (8/1/26)

Sponsored By: Mark Abraham (Republican)

Signed by Governor

CommerceCommerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

6 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 3 costs, 1 mixed.

Stored vehicles face towing after default

Beginning August 1, 2026, Louisiana storage owners can have a vehicle, boat, or trailer towed after 60 days of default. Towing is an alternative to foreclosing on the storage lien. The towing operator must be licensed under the Louisiana Towing and Storage Act. Once the operator takes possession, the storage owner is not liable for the property or damage to it.

Unrenewed storage rentals risk abandoned belongings

Beginning August 1, 2026, Louisiana storage owners can give written notice that a rental agreement will not be renewed. Customers must remove all belongings by the agreement’s expiration date. Belongings still at the facility 15 days after expiration are treated as abandoned. The owner can dispose of them without further notice.

Storage termination gives time but risks sales

Beginning August 1, 2026, Louisiana storage owners can end rental agreements as allowed by the agreement or law. Written notice must give customers 15 days from delivery to remove all belongings. The notice may limit access to posted business hours and must warn that leaving belongings behind counts as default. After that default, owners can claim a lien and sell or publicly auction remaining belongings without the law’s usual advertising requirement.

Storage customers can sign agreements electronically

Beginning August 1, 2026, Louisiana storage customers and owners can deliver and accept rental agreements electronically. The law also clarifies that self-service storage facilities are not warehouses under Louisiana’s commercial law unless owners issue title documents. These include warehouse receipts and bills of lading. If owners issue those documents, neither that commercial-law title nor the Self-Service Storage Facility Act applies.

Storage customers get required lien notices

Beginning August 1, 2026, Louisiana storage owners must send lien notices by verified mail and to customers’ listed rental-agreement email addresses. Without a written rental agreement that includes lien notice, owners must wait 30 days after sending notice before enforcement. Customers can update their mailing or email address through a later written notice, following the rental agreement’s requirements. The law also allows notices by text message to a listed wireless device.

Storage defaults can trigger property sales

Beginning August 1, 2026, Louisiana storage customers are in default when they miss any rental-agreement or legal duty’s deadline. Owners’ default remedies include demanding rent early, canceling agreements, and enforcing liens through public auctions or private sales. Sale advertisements can appear in a local newspaper or a public website that regularly advertises or conducts personal-property auctions or sales. The ad must appear at least once, at least 10 days after mailing notice or demanding payment, whichever happens later.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Mark Abraham

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 144 • No: 1

House vote • 5/12/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 98 • No: 0

House vote • 5/5/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 11 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/15/2026

Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 1 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 35 • No: 1

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 468.

    5/29/2026Senate

  2. Effective date 8/1/2026.

    5/29/2026Senate

  3. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/25/2026House

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

    5/21/2026Senate

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

    5/20/2026Senate

  6. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    5/12/2026House

  7. Received from the House with amendments.

    5/12/2026Senate

  8. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2026.

    5/11/2026House

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

    5/7/2026House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/6/2026House

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

    5/5/2026House

  12. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce.

    4/21/2026House

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

    4/20/2026House

  14. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 1 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    4/15/2026Senate

  15. Senate floor amendments read and adopted; read by title and returned to its regular order on third reading and final passage.

    4/14/2026Senate

  16. Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.

    4/13/2026Senate

  17. Reported with amendments.

    4/8/2026Senate

  18. Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs.

    3/9/2026Senate

  19. Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs.

    2/25/2026Senate

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