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HB1161 • 2026

PROPERTY/PUBLIC: Authorizes the transfer of certain state property in Lafourche Parish

PROPERTY/PUBLIC: Authorizes the transfer of certain state property in Lafourche Parish

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Bryan Fontenot
Last action
2026-06-09
Official status
Signed by the Governor - Act 880
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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PROPERTY/PUBLIC: Authorizes the transfer of certain state property in Lafourche Parish

PROPERTY/PUBLIC: Authorizes the transfer of certain state property in Lafourche Parish

What This Bill Does

  • PROPERTY/PUBLIC: Authorizes the transfer of certain state property in Lafourche Parish

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Plain English: SSHB1161 4563 6225 HOUSE SUMMARY OF SENATE AMENDMENTS HB 1161 2026 Regular Session Fontenot PROPERTY/PUBLIC: Authorizes the transfer of certain state property in Lafourche Parish Synopsis of Senate Amendments 1.

  • SSHB1161 4563 6225 HOUSE SUMMARY OF SENATE AMENDMENTS HB 1161 2026 Regular Session Fontenot PROPERTY/PUBLIC: Authorizes the transfer of certain state property in Lafourche Parish Synopsis of Senate Amendments 1.
  • Adds authorization to transfer property in Jefferson Parish to the city of Gretna.
  • 2.
  • Makes a technical change.

Plain English: HCAHB1161 3209 3769 HOUSE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by House Committee on Natural Resources and Environment to Original House Bill No.

  • HCAHB1161 3209 3769 HOUSE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by House Committee on Natural Resources and Environment to Original House Bill No.
  • 1161 by Representative Fontenot 1 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 1 2 On page 1, at the end of line 11, change "Thibodeaux:" to "Thibodaux:" 3 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 2 4 On page 1, delete lines 12 through 31 in their entirety and on page 2, delete lines 1 through 5 48 in their entirety and insert the following in lieu thereof: 6 "(1) The Southwest Quarter (SW-1/4) of a certain lot of ground situated in 7 the Parish of Lafourche, in the Town of Thibodeaux, being known and 8 designated as Lot One Hundred Forty-Five (145) on the plan of said town 9 made by James D.

Plain English: HCAHB1161 3209 3646 HOUSE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by House Committee on Natural Resources and Environment to Original House Bill No.

  • HCAHB1161 3209 3646 HOUSE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by House Committee on Natural Resources and Environment to Original House Bill No.
  • 1161 by Representative Fontenot 1 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 1 2 On page 1, at the end of line 11, change "Thibodeaux:" to "Thibodaux:" 3 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 2 4 On page 1, delete lines 12 through 31 in their entirety and on page 2, delete lines 1 through 5 48 in their entirety and insert the following in lieu thereof: 6 "(1) The Southwest Quarter (SW-1/4) of a certain lot of ground situated in 7 the Parish of Lafourche, in the Town of Thibodeaux, being known and 8 designated as Lot One Hundred Forty-Five (145) on the plan of said town 9 made by James D.

Plain English: 2026 Regular Session Sequence: 1750 HBS AMENDED BY SENATE TO BE CONCURRED IN HB 1161 BY FONTENOT CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS Date: 5/29/2026 Time: 2:27:27 PM ROLL CALL The roll was called with the following result: YEAS Adams Amedee Bacala Bamburg Beaullieu Berault Billings Boudreaux Bourriaque Boyd Boyer Brass Braud Broussard Bryant Butler Carlson Carrier Carter, W.

  • 2026 Regular Session Sequence: 1750 HBS AMENDED BY SENATE TO BE CONCURRED IN HB 1161 BY FONTENOT CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS Date: 5/29/2026 Time: 2:27:27 PM ROLL CALL The roll was called with the following result: YEAS Adams Amedee Bacala Bamburg Beaullieu Berault Billings Boudreaux Bourriaque Boyd Boyer Brass Braud Broussard Bryant Butler Carlson Carrier Carter, W.
  • Carver Chassion Chenevert Coates Cox Crews Deshotel Dewitt Dickerson Domangue Echols Edmonston Egan Farnum Firment Fisher Fontenot Freeman Freiberg Gadberry Galle Glorioso Green Hebert Henry, C.
  • Henry, D.
  • Horton Illg Johnson, M.

Plain English: SCAHB1161 4442 4289 SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senate Committee on Natural Resources to Engrossed House Bill No.

  • SCAHB1161 4442 4289 SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senate Committee on Natural Resources to Engrossed House Bill No.
  • 1161 by Representative Fontenot 1 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 1 2 On page 1, line 3, after "Parish" insert "and Jefferson Parish" 3 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 2 4 On page 2, between lines 42 and 43, insert: 5 "Section 3.

Plain English: SCAHB1161 4442 4180 SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senate Committee on Natural Resources to Engrossed House Bill No.

  • SCAHB1161 4442 4180 SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senate Committee on Natural Resources to Engrossed House Bill No.
  • 1161 by Representative Fontenot 1 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 1 2 On page 1, line 3, after "Parish" insert "and Jefferson Parish" 3 AMENDMENT NO.
  • 2 4 On page 2, between lines 42 and 43, insert: 5 "Section 3.

Bill History

  1. 2026-06-09 H

    Effective date: 06/09/2026.

  2. 2026-06-09 H

    Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 880.

  3. 2026-06-04 H

    Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

  4. 2026-06-01 S

    Signed by the President of the Senate.

  5. 2026-05-31 H

    Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

  6. 2026-05-29 H

    Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

  7. 2026-05-29 H

    Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.

  8. 2026-05-28 H

    Received from the Senate with amendments.

  9. 2026-05-27 S

    The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

  10. 2026-05-26 S

    Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

  11. 2026-05-25 S

    Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

  12. 2026-05-21 S

    Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.

  13. 2026-04-28 S

    Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.

  14. 2026-04-27 S

    Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

  15. 2026-04-27 H

    Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

  16. 2026-04-27 H

    Called from the calendar.

  17. 2026-04-21 H

    Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2026.

  18. 2026-04-21 H

    Notice given.

  19. 2026-04-21 H

    Read by title, returned to the calendar.

  20. 2026-04-20 H

    Scheduled for floor debate on 04/21/2026.

  21. 2026-04-15 H

    Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

  22. 2026-04-14 H

    Reported with amendments (11-0).

  23. 2026-04-01 H

    Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.

  24. 2026-03-31 H

    Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

Official Summary Text

PROPERTY/PUBLIC: Authorizes the transfer of certain state property in Lafourche Parish

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ENROLLED
ACT No. 8802026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 1161
BY REPRESENTATIVE FONTENOT
1 AN ACT
2 To authorize and provide for the transfer of certain state property; to authorize the transfer
3 of certain state property in Lafourche Parish and Jefferson Parish; to provide for the
4 property description; to provide for the reservation of mineral rights; to provide
5 terms and conditions; to provide an effective date; and to provide for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. The secretary of the Department of Transportation and Development,
8 notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, is hereby authorized and
9 empowered to convey, transfer, assign, lease, or deliver any interest, excluding mineral
10 rights, the state may have to all or any portion of the following described parcel of property
11 to the city of Thibodaux:
12 (1) The Southwest Quarter (SW-1/4) of a certain lot of ground situated in the
13 Parish of Lafourche, in the Town of Thibodeaux, being known and
14 designated as Lot One Hundred Forty-Five (145) on the plan of said town
15 made by James D. Grinnage, Surveyor, on the 1st day of May 1842; said
16 Southwest Quarter being bounded on the North by North half of said Lot
17 145, belonging to E.P. Lorio, now or formerly, and on the South by Back
18 Street, on the East by the Southeast Quarter of said Lot 145, belonging to
19 Edward F. McCulla and Beatrice & Noble Dickinson, now or formerly, and
20 on the West by Lot 144 together with all buildings and improvements thereon
21 and all rights, ways, privileges, and servitudes thereto belonging or in
22 anywise appertaining.
23
24 (2) A certain fractional lot of ground or fractional town lot, situated in the
25 Town of Thibodeaux, Parish of Lafourche, State of Louisiana, being the
26 southern portion of Lot One Hundred Forty-Four (144) on the plan of the
27 Town of Thibodeaux, made and executed by James B. Grinnage, Deputy
28 Surveyor, on the 1st day of May 1842; said fractional lot measured eighty
29 feet, more or less, front on Canal Street, by the depth of Lot One Hundred
30 Forty-Four, or one hundred seventy feet, eight inches, bound in front or west
31 by Canal Street, on the North or towards Bayou Lafourche by other portions
32 of said Lot 144, now belonging to Heymann Levy & Company, on the South
33 by Back Street of the Town of Thibodeaux, and in the rear or East by Lot 145
34 on the plan of said Town of Thibodeaux, together with all buildings and
35 improvements thereon and all rights, ways, privileges and servitudes thereto
36 belonging or in anywise appertaining.
37
38 LESS AND EXCEPT:
39
40 A lot 42.66 feet by 85.53 feet bounded North by Eva S. Reed, South by Back
41 St., East by President St., West by Pauline Rudd.
42
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HB NO. 1161 ENROLLED
1 AND
2
3 LESS AND EXCEPT:
4
5 One (1) certain tract or parcel of land, together with all the improvements
6 situated thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes and
7 advantages thereunder belonging or in anywise appertaining, municipal
8 address 1237 Canal Boulevard, Thibodeaux, LA, situated in Section 24,
9 Township 15 South, Range 16 East, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, identified
10 as Parcel No. 1-3, as shown on Sheet No. 1 of the property map for STATE
11 PROJECT NO. H.009320, ACADIAN ROAD ROUNDABOUT, LA 20
12 (CANAL BLVD) AND LOCAL ROUTES, LAFOURCHE PARISH,
13 LOUISIANA, prepared by Robert A. Price, dated March 18, 2019, most
14 recently revised July 16, 2020, said map being attached hereto and made a
15 part hereof, which property is more particularly described as follows:
16 PARCEL NO. 1-3
17 From a point on the centerline of State Project No. H.009320, at Station
18 109+16.08, proceed S58°23'12"E a distance of 59.94 feet to the point of
19 beginning; thence proceed N21°32'17"E a distance of 88.16 feet to a point
20 and corner; thence proceed S16°52'36"E a distance of 112.88 feet to a point
21 and corner; thence proceed N68°13'59"W a distance of 80.14 feet to the point
22 of beginning. All of which comprises Parcel 1-3 as shown on Sheet 1 of the
23 Right of Way Plans of State Project No. H.009320, and contains an area of
24 3973.6 square feet or 0.091 acres.
25
26 Section 2. The secretary of the Department of Transportation and Development is
27 hereby authorized to enter into such agreements, covenants, conditions, and stipulations and
28 to execute such documents as necessary to properly effectuate any conveyance, transfer,
29 assignment, lease, or delivery of title, excluding mineral rights, to the property described in
30 Section 1 of this Act, and as more specifically described in any such agreements entered into
31 and documents executed by and between the secretary of the Department of Transportation
32 and Development and the city of Thibodaux, in exchange for consideration proportionate to
33 the appraised value of the property.
34 Section 3. The secretary of the Department of Transportation and Development,
35 notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, is hereby authorized and
36 empowered to convey, transfer, assign, lease, or deliver any interest, excluding mineral
37 rights, the state may have to all or any portion of the following described parcel of property
38 to the city of Gretna:
39 Approximately twelve acres of batture fronting approximately 1,200 lineal
40 feet along the right descending bank of the Mississippi River proximate to
41 the city of Gretna near the intersection of First Street and Huey P. Long
42 Boulevard in Jefferson Parish with a municipal address of 1 Huey P. Long
43 Avenue, Gretna, LA 70053.
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HB NO. 1161 ENROLLED
1 Section 4. The secretary of the Department of Transportation and Development is
2 hereby authorized to enter into such agreements, covenants, conditions, and stipulations and
3 to execute such documents as necessary to properly effectuate any conveyance, transfer,
4 assignment, lease, or delivery of title, excluding mineral rights, to the property described in
5 Section 3 of this Act, and as more specifically described in any such agreements entered into
6 and documents executed by and between the secretary of the Department of Transportation
7 and Development and the city of Gretna, in exchange for consideration proportionate to the
8 appraised value of the property.
9 Section 5. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not
10 signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature
11 by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If
12 vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become
13 effective on the day following such approval.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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