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LouisianaSB 632025 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

PRIVILEGES/LIENS: Provides for a privilege by municipalities against multifamily residential properties for unpaid sewage disposal and water system service charges or user fees. (8/1/25)

Sponsored By: Sam Jenkins (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

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.

Landlords face liens for unpaid utilities

Beginning August 1, 2025, Louisiana municipalities can record property liens for unpaid water or sewage service charges or fees. This applies to properties with more than four dwelling units occupied by people other than the owner. A master meter service agreement must measure usage for the whole property or multiple units within a development. Owners get 30 days after written demand to pay before a municipality can file a lien. Notice can go to the owner's designated mailing or email address, or by another method reasonably calculated to give notice. Without a designated address, notice can also be hand-delivered to the property. Payments reduce the unpaid balance. A municipal official with knowledge of the debt must sign and verify a detailed statement filed in parish mortgage records. It must identify the property, recorded owner, unpaid amount, delinquency date, and demand date. The lien secures unpaid charges plus legal interest from their due dates. It starts upon filing and generally ranks ahead of later-recorded claims, subject to Louisiana's Private Works Act. Recording effects expire under existing law, which also allows renewal through re-recording. The law does not create personal liability for residents.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Sam Jenkins

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Thomas A. Pressly

    Republican • Senate

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 151 • No: 0

House vote • 6/2/2025

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 • 5/22/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 15 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/13/2025

Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 38 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Speaker of the House.

    6/8/2025House

  2. Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/5/2025.

    6/8/2025Senate

  3. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 99.

    6/8/2025Senate

  4. Effective date 8/1/2025.

    6/8/2025Senate

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

    6/4/2025Senate

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

    6/2/2025House

  7. Received from the House with amendments.

    6/2/2025Senate

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

    5/28/2025House

  9. Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/2025.

    5/28/2025House

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/27/2025House

  11. Reported with amendments (15-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/22/2025House

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

    5/14/2025House

  13. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/13/2025Senate

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

    5/13/2025House

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

    5/12/2025Senate

  16. Reported with amendments.

    5/8/2025Senate

  17. 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

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

    4/2/2025Senate

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