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LouisianaSB 2032025 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

TOURISM: Provides for the levy of hotel assessments in Orleans Parish. (8/1/25)

Sponsored By: Jimmy Harris (Democratic)

Became Law

Municipal, Parochial and Cultural AffairsLocal and Municipal Affairs

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Higher assessment cap for Orleans Parish hotels

Beginning August 1, 2025, tourism groups in Orleans Parish can assess member hotels up to 2.75% of daily room charges. This raises the cap from 1%; groups do not have to charge the maximum. The group's articles or bylaws must authorize the assessment. Its board must approve the charge and intended uses by resolution, and assessed hotels must approve it in a referendum. Money can fund destination marketing, sales, public relations, and activities the group judges directly or indirectly support economic development, the traveler economy, or tourism growth.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Jimmy Harris

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 143 • No: 5

House vote • 6/9/2025

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 102 • No: 0

House vote • 6/4/2025

Reported favorably

Yes: 10 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/7/2025

Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 5 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 31 • No: 5

Actions Timeline

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

    6/11/2025Senate

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

    6/10/2025Senate

  3. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    6/10/2025House

  4. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    6/9/2025House

  5. Received from the House without amendments.

    6/9/2025Senate

  6. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    6/8/2025House

  7. Read by title, rules suspended, passed to 3rd reading.

    6/8/2025House

  8. Scheduled for floor debate on 06/09/2025.

    6/8/2025House

  9. Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    6/4/2025House

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

    5/8/2025House

  11. Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 5 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/7/2025Senate

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

    5/7/2025House

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

    5/5/2025Senate

  14. Reported favorably.

    4/30/2025Senate

  15. Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs.

    4/14/2025Senate

  16. Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs.

    4/4/2025Senate

  17. Becomes Act No. 471 without the Governor's signature.

    7/1/2024Senate

  18. Effective date 8/1/2025.

    7/1/2024Senate

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