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LouisianaSB 3852026 Regular SessionSenate

LOCAL OFFICIALS: Provides for appointments to the board of commissioners and insurance for the New Orleans City Park Improvement Association. (8/1/26)

Sponsored By: Jimmy Harris (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

Municipal, Parochial and Cultural AffairsLocal and Municipal Affairs

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

4 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 3 mixed.

City Park contractors get insurance options

Beginning August 1, 2026, qualifying City Park contractors count as private entities, not state agents, under specified purchasing, public-contract, and public-land lease laws. They may be added to the Association’s general liability, property, automobile, employment practices liability, and workers’ compensation insurance plans. Coverage may include participation in the state risk management program. These options cover park contractors, not households, and the law sets no insurance cost or coverage amount.

City Park contracts face clear safeguards

Beginning August 1, 2026, City Park contracts and leases must follow the park’s master plan required by the 1982 law. Golf and tennis management contracts require a competitive request for proposals reviewed by a committee with multiple members. The board sets contract terms and length; each agreement must allow termination with or without cause after at least 90 days’ written notice to every party. The board may transfer contracts existing on August 1, 2026, to operators contracting under this law. Assigned contracts for Tad Gormley Stadium, Pan-American Stadium, or a future stadium must keep the terms and conditions in effect on June 1, 1989.

Nonprofits can run City Park services

Beginning August 1, 2026, the City Park board may contract with nonprofits to run existing or future park facilities and lands. Eligible groups must be Louisiana nonprofits or not-for-profits, focus mainly on improving City Park, and have at least 500 members. Their work may include hiring non-managerial staff and buying goods or services as the board directs. Contractors may hire their own workers for services previously handled by Association or board employees; the law sets no wages or staffing levels. The board may let a nonprofit collect authorized rents, charges, admissions, or fares, but the law does not set or raise them.

State officials help oversee City Park

Beginning August 1, 2026, the state culture, recreation and tourism secretary serves on the New Orleans City Park board. The secretary may name someone to serve during an absence. The Senate president, House speaker, and lawmakers representing the park also serve and may name representatives. Their board terms match their elected terms, and these four lawmakers also serve on nonprofit park operators’ governing boards. The law preserves the Association’s existing powers and allows its transfer to the state culture, recreation and tourism department under existing law.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Jimmy Harris

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 140 • No: 0

House vote • 5/19/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 93 • No: 0

House vote • 5/7/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 13 • No: 0

Senate vote • 3/23/2026

Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 34 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 501.

    5/29/2026Senate

  2. Effective date 8/1/2026.

    5/29/2026Senate

  3. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/25/2026House

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

    5/21/2026Senate

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

    5/21/2026Senate

  6. Called from the calendar.

    5/19/2026House

  7. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    5/19/2026House

  8. Received from the House with amendments.

    5/19/2026Senate

  9. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2026.

    5/18/2026House

  10. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    5/18/2026House

  11. Notice given.

    5/18/2026House

  12. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2026.

    5/18/2026House

  13. Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.

    5/12/2026House

  14. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/11/2026House

  15. Reported favorably (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/7/2026House

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

    3/25/2026House

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

    3/24/2026House

  18. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    3/23/2026Senate

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

    3/16/2026Senate

  20. Reported favorably.

    3/11/2026Senate

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

    3/9/2026Senate

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

    2/27/2026Senate

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