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LouisianaSB 992025 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

TRAFFIC: Provides relative to traffic cameras for the issuance of citations. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Sponsored By: Stewart Cathey Jr. (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Transportation, Highways and Public WorksJudiciary C

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6 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.

Drivers face cameras mainly in school zones

Beginning August 1, 2025, Louisiana limits speed cameras to lawfully posted school zones. Unmanned cameras cannot cite drivers who were not speeding immediately before entry when required entrance or exit signs are missing. A municipality must first have an agreement with each school governing authority within its boundaries before deploying speed cameras. An exception to specified camera-use restrictions covers municipalities with 15,001–15,999 residents in parishes with 70,001–89,999 residents. These population counts use the latest federal decennial census.

Drivers gain camera fine collection protections

Beginning August 1, 2025, authorities cannot impose criminal fines or fees for mailed automated-speed or mobile-camera citations. They also cannot report nonpayment of those citations to credit bureaus. Final delinquent debts from automated-speed, mobile-speed, or red-light cameras cannot go to Louisiana’s Department of Revenue debt-recovery office. These protections do not erase civil liability or the debt, and they do not prohibit all other collection methods.

Drivers get clearer speed camera warnings

Beginning August 1, 2025, local authorities must post visible warning signs 250–500 feet from each speed camera. Without that notice, camera images cannot support civil or criminal fines, fees, or penalties imposed or collected by that authority. For mailed citations, school zones need two-foot-wide yellow roadway stripes with 12-inch white lettering. One must say “Entering School Zone” at entry; another must say “School Zone Ahead” 200 feet before entry. Camera notices must be within 200 feet of the zone, and officers must use marked law-enforcement vehicles or identifying reflective vests.

Vehicle owners get free citation reviews

Beginning August 1, 2025, recipients can defeat civil camera-citation liability by stating they were not the owner when the violation occurred. The defense also covers vehicles outside the owner’s care, custody, or control at that time. Citations must include an attestation on the back; no notarization or naming another owner or driver is required. Mailed citations must offer a stamped, self-addressed envelope, QR code, or internet portal link for accessing the defense certification. Vehicle owners who request an administrative hearing or court review of an adverse decision pay no cost for that review.

Officials face penalties for unlawful camera use

Beginning August 1, 2025, intentionally performing an official duty unlawfully counts as malfeasance in office, including violations of traffic-camera rules. Officials and employees who intentionally use covered speed cameras unlawfully to issue mailed citations face the state’s malfeasance penalties. The law adds no new duty for motorists.

Local project waivers require camera revenue reports

Beginning August 1, 2025, Louisiana jurisdictions seeking waivers of local funding contributions for capital projects must disclose electronic-enforcement revenue. Failure to disclose results in revocation of the waiver. Water-system, sewer-system, and natural-gas-system project waivers are protected from revocation for that failure.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Stewart Cathey Jr.

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Beryl Amedée

    Republican • House

  • Charles Owen

    Republican • House

  • Danny McCormick

    Republican • House

  • Francis C. Thompson

    Republican • House

  • Michael "Gabe" Firment

    Republican • House

  • John E. Wyble

    Republican • House

  • Kathy Edmonston

    Republican • House

  • Michael Charles Echols

    Republican • House

  • Michael Robert Bayham Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Mike Johnson

    Republican • House

  • Peter F. Egan Sr.

    Republican • House

  • Phillip DeVillier

    Republican • House

  • Raymond J. Crews

    Republican • House

  • Rodney Schamerhorn

    Republican • House

  • Roger William Wilder III

    Republican • House

  • Steven Jackson

    Democratic • House

  • Troy D. Romero

    Affiliation unavailable

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 112 • No: 33

House vote • 5/28/2025

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 73, nays 22. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 73 • No: 22

House vote • 5/19/2025

Reported with amendments

Yes: 7 • No: 5

Senate vote • 4/28/2025

Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 6 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 32 • No: 6

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 107.

    6/8/2025Senate

  2. Effective date 8/1/2025.

    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 by title, amended, returned to the calendar.

    5/28/2025House

  7. Called from the calendar.

    5/28/2025House

  8. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 73, nays 22. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

    5/28/2025House

  9. Received from the House with amendments.

    5/28/2025Senate

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

    5/27/2025House

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

    5/21/2025House

  12. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

    5/20/2025House

  13. Reported with amendments (7-5). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/19/2025House

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

    4/30/2025House

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

    4/29/2025House

  16. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 6 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    4/28/2025Senate

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

    4/23/2025Senate

  18. Reported with amendments.

    4/22/2025Senate

  19. Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.

    4/14/2025Senate

  20. Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.

    4/3/2025Senate

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