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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana House Bill 388 bans unsolicited contractor sales visits and doubles maximum fines for violations
Last action · March 9, 2026: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce.Sponsor: Brian Glorioso
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What This Bill Proposed
Louisiana House Bill 388 prohibits contractors from engaging in unsolicited homeowner contact, including door hangers, text messages, emails, and unscheduled sales visits. The measure also doubles the maximum for contracting violations from 10% to 20% of the total contract value or work performed.
Residential contractors face steeper financial penalties and a total ban on uninvited outreach methods to homeowners, while property owners gain explicit statutory protection against unsolicited sales solicitations.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
persons performing contracting services
Contractors are prohibited from conducting unsolicited sales visits and face doubled maximum civil fines for violations.
homeowners
Homeowners receive statutory protection from uninvited sales contacts, door hangers, texts, and emails from contractors.
Key Facts
- Prohibits persons performing contracting services from engaging in unsolicited homeowner contact, including door hangers, business cards, magnets, flyers, pamphlets, text messages, emails, or unscheduled sales visits.
- Increases the maximum civil penalty for violating contracting provisions from up to 10% to up to 20% of the total contract or the value of the work bid or being performed.
- Authorizes the board or residential subcommittee to impose administrative costs and attorney fees for each offense in addition to civil fines.
- Requires the board to consider circumstances, seriousness, cooperation, and previous violation history when determining administrative penalties.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
4 actions- Mar 9, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce.
- Feb 27, 2026HouseFirst appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
- Feb 25, 2026HousePrefiled.
- Feb 25, 2026HouseCommitteeUnder the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce.
Version history
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 60)
- Controversy40Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz30Current news / social attention level
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