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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana Authorizes City of Alexandria to Use Administrative Adjudication for Building, Zoning, and Licensing Violations
Last action · June 2, 2026: Effective date: 08/01/2026.Sponsor: Jason DeWitt
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What This Bill Does
Louisiana Act 612 allows the city of Alexandria to expand its procedures to cover building codes, zoning, vegetation, nuisance, sewerage, drainage, licensing, permit, and other local ordinance violations.
Property owners and business operators in Alexandria face administrative hearings rather than traditional court proceedings for a broader range of local code and licensing infractions.
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
property owners in Alexandria
Property owners are subject to administrative adjudication procedures for a wider array of building, zoning, and property maintenance violations.
business operators in Alexandria
Businesses face potential administrative adjudication for local licensing, permit, and ordinance violations.
governing authority of the city of Alexandria
The city gains the authority to determine and apply administrative adjudication procedures to additional local ordinance violations.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
24 actions- Jun 2, 2026HouseEnrolledSigned by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 612.
- Jun 2, 2026HouseEffective date: 08/01/2026.
- Jun 1, 2026SenateEnrolledSigned by the President of the Senate.
- Jun 1, 2026HouseSent to the Governor for executive approval.
- May 31, 2026HouseEnrolledEnrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- May 29, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 3, Senate amendments concurred in.
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- May 27, 2026HouseScheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.
- May 26, 2026HouseReceived from the Senate with amendments.
- May 25, 2026SenateFloorRules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
- May 20, 2026SenateFloorReported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- May 19, 2026SenateFloorCommittee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- May 18, 2026SenateReported with amendments.
- May 12, 2026SenateCommitteeRead second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs.
- May 11, 2026SenateReceived in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- May 7, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, returned to the calendar.
- May 7, 2026HouseCalled from the calendar.
- May 7, 2026HouseFloorRead third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
- May 6, 2026HouseFloorRead by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- May 6, 2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 05/07/2026.
- May 5, 2026HouseCommitteeReported favorably (14-0).
- Mar 9, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.
- Feb 6, 2026HouseFirst appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/6/2026.
- Feb 2, 2026HousePrefiled.
- Feb 2, 2026HouseCommitteeUnder the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance35How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz15Current news / social attention level
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