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LouisianaSB 1762025 Regular SessionSenate

AIRCRAFT/AVIATION: Provides relative to the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport. (8/1/25) (EN +$251,239 FC SG EX)

Sponsored By: Franklin J. Foil (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Transportation, Highways and Public Works

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

New authority for Baton Rouge airport

Beginning August 1, 2025, the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Council can form the Baton Rouge Regional Airport Authority. Once formed, it takes over airport operations, assets, revenues, expenses, and the existing airport authority from the City-Parish. The transfer does not increase total airport revenue or affect the City-Parish General Fund. Added staffing and software costs are estimated at $218,940 for 2025–2026, growing 3.5% annually, paid from airport revenues. Transferring workers have three retirement options: keep their current system, join another legally allowed system, or enter a new Authority system. Keeping current coverage shifts employer pension payments to the Authority; changing systems leaves future costs uncertain. Municipal police pension rules may also raise employer costs, and the law grants no larger retirement benefits. A certified actuarial note must disclose pension costs, liabilities, assumptions, and risks. The law specifies no changes to airport services, fees, or household taxes.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Franklin J. Foil

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 146 • No: 0

House vote • 5/28/2025

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 101 • No: 0

House vote • 5/19/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 9 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/7/2025

Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 36 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

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

    6/8/2025Senate

  2. Effective date 6/8/2025.

    6/8/2025Senate

  3. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    6/3/2025House

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

    6/3/2025Senate

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

    6/2/2025Senate

  6. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    5/28/2025House

  7. Received from the House with amendments.

    5/28/2025Senate

  8. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/2025.

    5/27/2025House

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

    5/21/2025House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/20/2025House

  11. Reported with amendments (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/19/2025House

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

    5/12/2025House

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

    5/8/2025House

  14. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/7/2025Senate

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

    5/5/2025Senate

  16. Reported with amendments.

    4/30/2025Senate

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

    4/14/2025Senate

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

    4/4/2025Senate

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