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Votes at a glance: notable bills passed April 28 in the Louisiana Senate
Summary
The Louisiana Senate recorded final action on a range of bills on April 28, including local naming bills, property transfers, technical code revisions and several statewide measures. This roundup lists bills with recorded final passage and the recorded roll-call tallies where provided in the transcript excerpt.
The following bills recorded final passage during the April 28 Senate session. Where the transcript records a roll-call tally, that tally is shown. Descriptions are the sponsor’s floor summaries as recorded in the transcript.
- SB 3 (Boudreau): Authorizes St. Martin Parish Hospital District No. 2 to name a medical office building; final passage recorded 39–0.
- SB 18 (Boudreau): Local bill allowing the city of Lafayette to name a parks/recreation complex in honor of Ernest Neighbors Jr.; final passage recorded 38–0.
- SB 29 (Henskins): Repeals statutory provisions creating the Vermilion Economic Development District at the request of local voters; final passage recorded 39–0.
- SB 31 (Jenkins): Authorizes transfer of certain state land parcels in Caddo Parish with reserved mineral rights; final passage recorded 39–0.
- SB 35 (Price): Revises civil-code language separating servitude categories; final passage recorded 39–0.
- SB 49 (Miller): Revises testament form requirements for olographic and notarial testaments; final passage recorded 39–0.
- SB 51 (Luno): Local bill providing temporary public-record protections for utility-related information for the city of Alexandria; final passage recorded 39–0.
- SB 64 (Edmonds): Local bill concerning Shenandoah Estates Prevention and Improvement District governance; final passage recorded 39–0.
- SB 66 (Foyle): Prohibits discrimination based on military status in public schools and employment; final passage recorded 39–0.
- SB 67 (Foyle): Law Institute revision easing contesting of certain probate matters; final passage recorded 38–0.
- SB 76 and SB 77 (Boudreau): Local naming bills for facilities in Lafayette; final passage recorded 39–0 (SB 76) and 38–0 (SB 77).
- SB 79 (Bass): Adds data centers to the statutory definition of industrial purpose; final passage recorded 39–0.
- SB 92 (Fuhr): Extends certain bank-record disclosure provisions to the state inspector general; final passage recorded 38–0.
- SB 93 (Lambert): Amends civil-code rules on penal clauses to allow good-cause challenges without penalty; final passage recorded 39–0.
- SB 106 (Lambert): Removes a prohibition on carrying firearms while frogging at night; final passage recorded 39–0.
- SB 107 (Boudreau): Local bill concerning Lafayette Economic Development Authority redevelopment functions; final passage recorded 39–0.
- SB 109 (Seba): Constitutional amendment prohibiting foreign donations in Louisiana elections; final passage recorded 34–5 (also covered in separate article).
Notes: Many ceremonial and commendation resolutions were adopted by voice vote (“without objection”) and are not listed here. The transcript excerpt contains additional introduced house bills and concurrent resolutions that were referred to committees or laid over; those items are not included in this roundup.
For bills with local impact (naming, redevelopment, district governance), sponsors noted those measures were properly advertised and supported by local delegations. Several law-institute bills and technical revisions were described by sponsors as clarifications to existing law rather than policy changes.
