| HB 41 | Geymann | Provides for changes to the enforcement of certain provisions of the International Residential Code. |
| Bill History: |
05-05-08 H Meeting set for 9:30 A.M. RM. 1 House Commerce |
| HB 65 | Morris | Provides relative to expenses for board members of the Construction Code Council. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| HB 95 | Kleckley | Requires the Property Insurance Association of Louisiana to release copies of the Field Procedure Reference Guide for Public Protection. |
| Bill History: |
03-12-08 H Referred to House Committee on House Insurance |
| HB 98 | Lopinto | Clarifies the master-servant relationship in connection with liability of political subdivisions. |
| Bill History: |
06-13-08 G Effective |
| HB 129 | Monica | Increases the civil jurisdictional amount of justice of the peace courts. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| HB 173 | Baldone | Authorizes public entities to undertake public works projects with their own employees. |
| Bill History: |
04-15-08 H Meeting set for 10:00 A.M. RM 3 House Transportation |
| HB 177 | Ponti | Exempts one- and two-family residences from certain provisions of the State Uniform Fire Prevention Code. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| HB 198 | Arnold | Provides for changes to the State Uniform Construction Code. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| HB 204 | Chandler | Exempts certain areas from enforcement of the International Residential Code. |
| Bill History: |
05-05-08 H Involuntarily Deferred House Commerce |
| HB 211 | Chandler | Provides for a fee structure between governmental entities and third-party providers to be determined by the governmental entity. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| HB 212 | Arnold | Provides relative to the sale of property by parishes and municipalities. |
| Bill History: |
06-17-08 G Effective |
| HB 270 | Jones, R. | Prohibits certain municipal employees from participation in political activity. |
| Bill History: |
03-18-08 H Referred to House Committee on House and Governmental Affairs |
| HB 281 | Jones, R. | Prohibits a public servant from creating a public service announcement during time periods around an election if such public servant has qualified to be a candidate in such election. |
| Bill History: |
04-16-08 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs |
| HB 324 | Ellington | Provides relative to fees charged by third-party providers on inspections. |
| Bill History: |
03-19-08 H Referred to House Committee on House Commerce |
| HB 351 | Hines | Creates green building standards for certain buildings. |
| Bill History: |
03-19-08 H Referred to House Committee on House Appropriations |
| HB 392 | Gallot | Removes provision which allows a public body to take up a matter not on the agenda of a public meeting. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| HB 407 | Hardy | Prohibits use of a cellular telephone by any person while driving public transportation. |
| Bill History: |
05-05-08 H Committee hearing cancelled House Transportation |
| HB 409 | Arnold | Provides for changes to the La. Underground Utilities and Facilities Damage Prevention Law. Became HB 1382. |
| Bill History: |
05-21-08 H Set on the House Orders |
| HB 415 | Kleckley | Requires the Property Insurance Association of Louisiana to release copies of the Field Procedure Reference Guide for Public Protection. |
| Bill History: |
03-19-08 H Referred to House Committee on House Insurance |
| HB 438 (1) | Ligi | Provides relative to drug testing of employees of local governmental subdivisions. |
| Bill History: |
06-17-08 G Effective |
| HB 446 | Greene | Removes the requirement that Acts of the legislature be published in the official journal of the state. |
| Bill History: |
05-28-08 H Meeting set for 9:30 A.M. RM. F Senate and Governmental Affairs |
| HB 456 | Honey | (Constitutional Amendment) Provides relative to the seizure of property owned by political subdivisions of the state. |
| Bill History: |
05-07-08 H Meeting set for At Adj. House Municipal and Parochial Affair |
| HB 461 | Ritchie | (Constitutional Amendment) Provides for transfer of the special assessment level to new property purchased to replace expropriated property. |
| Bill History: |
11-04-08 G Effective |
| HB 495 | Lopinto | Provide relative to evacuations, curfews, and essential or critical workforce during a disaster or state emergency. |
| Bill History: |
06-16-08 G Effective |
| HB 514 | Ponti | Excludes certain people involved in the construction, maintenance, or manufacturing of any refining or petrochemical facility from drug testing requirements. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| HB 553 | Arnold | Provides for changes to the Uniform Standards Code for Manufactured Housing. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| HB 560 | Hutter | Adds an exception to Public Records Law for safety sensitive infrastructure. |
| Bill History: |
04-16-08 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M., RM. 3 House and Governmental Affairs |
| HB 567 (1) | Perry | Relative to operators of water systems. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| HB 571 | Peterson | Provides relative to industrial development and prohibits industrial areas in newly created municipalities. |
| Bill History: |
05-28-08 H Committee hearing cancelled House Municipal and Parochial Affairs |
| HB 579 | Smith, Jane | Provides for a time limit for certain refunds of overpayments of taxes. |
| Bill History: |
07-01-08 G Effective |
| HB 582 | Tucker | Revises the capital outlay process and the priorities and other content of the Capital Outlay Bill. |
| Bill History: |
06-09-08 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs |
| HB 610 | White | Provides for electronic bidding at the local level. |
| Bill History: |
01-01-09 G Effective |
| HB 641 | Jackson, G. | Provides for changes to accessibility for disabled individuals in certain facilities. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| HB 668 | Downs | Provides relative to post-employment benefit funds established by political subdivisions. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| HB 673 | Kleckley | Provides relative to fees charged to a credit card or debit card sale. |
| Bill History: |
03-20-08 H Referred to House Committee on House Commerce |
| HB 790 (1) | Foil | Removes provisions for the July proposition election date. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| HB 800 | Roy | Creates the Louisiana Modular Housing Act. |
| Bill History: |
05-06-08 H Involuntarily Deferred House Commerce |
| HB 808 | LaBruzzo | Transfers authority to operate Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center, Lallie Kemp Regional Medical Center, Bogalusa Medical Center, W.O. Moss Regional Medical Center, E.A. Conway Medical Center, and Huey P. Long Medical Center to hospital service district |
| Bill History: |
05-13-08 H Meeting set for 9:30 A.M. RM. 5 House Health and Welfare |
| HB 850 | Fannin | Revises the capital outlay process. |
| Bill History: |
05-05-08 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 6 House Ways and Means |
| HB 857 (1) | Greene | Removes provisions for the July proposition election date. |
| Bill History: |
04-02-08 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 3 House and Governmental Affairs |
| HB 869 (1) | Arnold | Provides for regulation of cable and telecommunications services. |
| Bill History: |
04-24-08 H Committee hearing cancelled House Commerce |
| HB 874 | Tucker | Provides relative to railroad crossings. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| HB 920 | Fannin | Provides for changes to the Louisiana State Uniform Construction Code. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| HB 934 (1) | Templet | Provides relative to the removal of dangerous structures by the governing authority of parishes and municipalities. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| HB 936 (1) | Leger | Relative to budgets of local entities, provides for inclusion as expenditures of payment of judgments and settlements and prohibits borrowing for capital expenditures when current expenditures are not timely paid. |
| Bill History: |
06-17-08 S Returned to the calendar - subject to call |
| HB 940 | Talbot | Provides for changes to the Louisiana State Uniform Construction Code. |
| Bill History: |
05-05-08 H Meeting set for 9:30 A.M. RM. 1 House Commerce |
| HB 941 | Talbot | Provides for changes to the La. State Uniform Construction Code. |
| Bill History: |
06-17-08 G Effective |
| HB 948 (1) | St. Germain | Provides for the Public Fire Protection Grading Review Board and the Louisiana Addendum. Became HB 1369. |
| Bill History: |
05-13-08 H Set on the House Orders |
| HB 971 | Richard | Authorizes a parish to designate its website as its official journal. |
| Bill History: |
05-14-08 H Meeting set for 9:30 A.M. RM. 6 House Municipal and Parochial Affair |
| HB 978 | Waddell | Provides for the acceptance of design equivalencies by local governments. |
| Bill History: |
03-21-08 H Referred to House Committee on House Commerce |
| HB 980 | Burns, Henry | Authorizes rehearings by fire and police civil service boards on disciplinary matters under certain circumstances. |
| Bill History: |
06-17-08 G Effective |
| HB 995 | Montoucet | Provides relative to the political activities of members of the municipal fire and police civil service. |
| Bill History: |
03-21-08 H Referred to House Committee on House Municipal and Parochial Affairs |
| HB 1009 (1) | Ellington | Creates the Consumer Choice for Television Act. |
| Bill History: |
04-24-08 H Committee hearing cancelled House Commerce |
| HB 1042 | Geymann | Provides for changes to the Louisiana State Uniform Construction Code Council. |
| Bill History: |
05-05-08 H Meeting set for 9:30 A.M. RM. 1 House Commerce |
| HB 1079 | Fannin | Provides a public records exemption for certain documents of certain internal auditors. |
| Bill History: |
04-16-08 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M., RM. 3 House and Governmental Affairs |
| HB 1088 | Willmott | Prohibits an elected official in a political subdivision from holding part-time employment in a political subdivision under certain conditions. |
| Bill History: |
06-20-08 H Withdrawn |
| HB 1104 | Tucker | Creates the Louisiana Workforce Commission. |
| Bill History: |
07-01-08 G Effective |
| HB 1150 | Chandler | Provides for disposition of abandoned railroad properties. |
| Bill History: |
04-17-08 H Referred to House Committee on House Transportation |
| HB 1154 | Leger | Exempts certain groups from review by the legislative auditor. |
| Bill History: |
05-13-08 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 3 House and Governmental Affairs |
| HB 1159 | St. Germain | Provides for emergency access to elevators. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| HB 1165 | Honey | Provides for an increase in the maximum weekly benefit amount relative to unemployment compensation. |
| Bill History: |
06-12-08 G Effective |
| HB 1177 | Burrell | Provides state supplemental pay for water/wastewater operators. |
| Bill History: |
04-22-08 H Referred to House Committee on House Appropriations |
| HB 1209 | Greene | Revises the capital outlay process and the priorities and other content of the Capital Outlay Bill. |
| Bill History: |
06-05-08 H Returned to the calendar - subject to call |
| HB 1219 | Lorusso | Provides relative to the taking of private property. |
| Bill History: |
06-20-08 H Returned to the calendar - subject to call |
| HB 1227 | Smiley | Requires that GPS be used to determine the location of residential structures within a public fire protection area for purposes of fire protection rates. |
| Bill History: |
05-07-08 H Meeting set for 9:30 A.M. RM. 2 House Insurance |
| HB 1272 | Tucker | Creates the Southeast Regional Airport Authority. |
| Bill History: |
07-14-08 G Effective |
| HB 1297 | Barrow | Authorizes parish and municipal ordinances to secure or condemn and demolish and remove structures that endanger the public health and welfare, including payment of costs, and provides for National Guard assistance. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| HB 1308 | Ellington | Provides for changes to enforcement of building codes. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| HB 1329 (1) | Downs | Provides relative to the enforcement of speed regulations by parish and municipal law enforcement officers. |
| Bill History: |
05-14-08 H Meeting set for 9:30 A.M. RM. 6 House Municipal and Parochial Affair |
| HB 1369 (1) | St. Germain | Creates the Louisiana Addendum Board within the office of the state fire marshal, code enforcement and building safety. Substitute for HB 948. |
| Bill History: |
07-09-08 G Effective |
| HB 1382 | Arnold | Provides for changes to the La. Underground Utilities and Facilities Damage Prevention Law. Substitute for HB 409. |
| Bill History: |
06-03-08 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate Commerce |
| SB 11 | Gautreaux, N. | Revises the Louisiana Right to Farm Law. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| SB 29 | Murray | Provides for the Louisiana Tax Commission instead of the parish governing authority to be the board of review to determine the correctness of property tax assessments in certain parishes. (See Act) |
| Bill History: |
05-19-08 S Meeting set for 2:00 p.m. , John J. Hainkel...Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs |
| SB 37 | Dupre | Authorizes certain ex officio notarial appointments by mayors in certain political subdivisions. |
| Bill History: |
06-10-08 G Effective |
| SB 134 | McPherson | Constitutional amendment to allow certain employees in the classified service to publicly express political positions or endorsements. |
| Bill History: |
04-30-08 S Failed to pass (Vote: Y: 13/N: 23) |
| SB 136 | Quinn | Authorizes certain technical evaluation committees to meet and conduct business through teleconferencing and video conferencing. (gov sig) |
| Bill History: |
04-02-08 S Meeting set for 9:30 A.M. RM. F Senate and Governmental Affairs |
| SB 147 (1) | Martiny | Authorizes the board of aldermen, upon the mayor's request, to appoint one or more magistrates and one or more prosecutors for mayor's court. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| SB 168 | Murray | Exempts Louisiana employers who operate on a reimbursement basis within the unemployment compensation system from repayment of benefits paid in accordance with Executive Orders KBB 2005-34, KBB 2005-46, and KBB 2005-76. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| SB 204 | Walsworth | Revises laws regarding public printing. (8/15/08) |
| Bill History: |
06-20-08 H Returned to the calendar - subject to call |
| SB 224 | Shepherd | Requires that the board of each housing authority include at least one tenant. |
| Bill History: |
07-09-08 G Effective |
| SB 225 | Shepherd | Creates the crime of unlawfully wearing clothing which exposes undergarments or body parts. (gov sig) |
| Bill History: |
04-22-08 S Involuntarily Deferred Senate Judiciary (C) |
| SB 243 | McPherson | Provides procedure for closing or removal of private farm railroad crossings. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| SB 289 | Kostelka | Places requirements and restrictions on the use of private auditing firms by local sales tax collectors and limits "specific penalties" which may be charged to taxpayers who fail to make a return. |
| Bill History: |
03-20-08 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs |
| SB 312 | Mount | Provides for requirements for water fluoridation. |
| Bill History: |
07-06-08 G Effective |
| SB 321 | Hebert | Authorizes DEQ to accept credit cards for payment of obligations owed to the state through use of a third-party processor to collect a convenience fee to adequately cover transaction fees. |
| Bill History: |
06-09-08 G Effective |
| SB 396 | Hebert | Provides for certain restrictions for local governments contracting with private companies for a fee or contingency basis. (6/1/08) |
| Bill History: |
05-14-08 S Returned to the calendar - subject to call |
| SB 405 | Broome | Creates and provides for the Louisiana Financial Literacy and Education Commission. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| SB 410 | Hebert | Provides that the powers granted the governor and local governmental officials during disasters or emergencies do not authorize the seizure or confiscation of a firearm. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| SB 422 (1) | Duplessis | Provides for the Consumer Choice Television Act. (gov sig) Became SB 807. |
| Bill History: |
04-28-08 S Set on the Senate Orders |
| SB 455 | Michot | Provides relative to performance-based energy efficiency contracts. (8/15/08) |
| Bill History: |
06-05-08 S Meeting set for 1:00 P.M. RM. A-B Senate Finance |
| SB 550 | Thompson | Provides relative to fertilizer regulation and prohibits local government subdivisions from regulating fertilizers. |
| Bill History: |
06-05-08 G Effective |
| SB 591 | Adley | Requires certain bond issuers or their representative to report costs of issuance of bonds to the State Bond Commission and to the issuer. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| SB 691 | Long | Provides laws intended to deter candidates and their supporters from filing false or frivolous complaints with governmental entities that have investigative authority. |
| Bill History: |
05-21-08 S Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. F Senate and Governmental Affairs |
| SB 720 | Donahue | Repeals the state sales tax levied at the rate of ninety-seven one hundredths of one percent except for the tax levied on hotel and motel rooms which is dedicated to the parishes. (7/1/08) |
| Bill History: |
05-12-08 S Withdrawn |
| SB 783 | Gautreaux, B. | Provides for the powers of the chairman of the Louisiana Animal Welfare Commission. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| SB 788 | Walsworth | Provides a governance structure within the Governor's Office of Homeland Security for planning, implementing, and maintaining a statewide communication interoperability plan. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| SB 807 (1) | Duplessis | Provides for the Consumer Choice Television Act. Substitue for SB 422. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |