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LouisianaSB 4302026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

TAX/LOCAL: Provides for the levy of hotel occupancy tax by the Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau. (8/1/26)

Sponsored By: Sam Jenkins (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.

Shreveport-Bossier hotel tax can be renewed repeatedly

Beginning August 1, 2026, the law removes the one-time renewal-election limit for the Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau’s additional lodging tax. The tax covers hotel rooms, motel rooms, and overnight camping facilities in Caddo and Bossier parishes. The bureau must call each tax election, and a majority voting on the measure in those parishes must approve it. All votes must occur at regularly scheduled statewide elections; the initial authorization election remains limited to one attempt. Initial taxing authority ends June 30 of the twelfth calendar year after voter approval. Each renewal lasts for the term stated in the ballot measure, no longer than 12 years. Renewals can continue guests’ added lodging costs, but this law does not specify a tax rate.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Sam Jenkins

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 125 • No: 9

House vote • 5/18/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 80, nays 9. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 80 • No: 9

House vote • 5/7/2026

Reported favorably

Yes: 11 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/15/2026

Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 34 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Becomes Act No. 598 without the Governor's signature.

    6/1/2026Senate

  2. Effective date 8/1/2026.

    6/1/2026Senate

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

    5/20/2026Senate

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

    5/19/2026Senate

  5. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/19/2026House

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

    5/18/2026House

  7. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 80, nays 9. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    5/18/2026House

  8. Received from the House without amendments.

    5/18/2026Senate

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

    5/12/2026House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/11/2026House

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

    5/7/2026House

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

    4/20/2026House

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

    4/16/2026House

  14. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    4/15/2026Senate

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

    4/13/2026Senate

  16. Reported favorably.

    4/8/2026Senate

  17. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs.

    3/31/2026Senate

  18. Rules suspended. Introduced in the Senate. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    3/30/2026Senate

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