HB864 • 2026

HIGHWAYS: Authorizes municipalities to establish fire limits and to prohibit the storage, placement, accumulation, abandonment, or use of certain materials within the right-of-way of certain public structures

Crime

Enacted

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

Sponsor: Alonzo Knox
Last action: 2026-06-08
Official status: Signed by the Governor - Act 849
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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HIGHWAYS: Authorizes municipalities to establish fire limits and to prohibit the storage, placement, accumulation, abandonment, or use of certain materials within the right-of-way of certain public structures

What This Bill Does

HIGHWAYS: Authorizes municipalities to establish fire limits and to prohibit the storage, placement, accumulation, abandonment, or use of certain materials within the right-of-way of certain public structures

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Amendments

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Summary of Senate Amendments to HB864

Filed

Plain English: SSHB864 552 6120 HOUSE SUMMARY OF SENATE AMENDMENTS HB 864 2026 Regular Session Knox LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Authorizes municipalities to establish fire limits and to prohibit the storage, placment, accumulation, abandonement, or use of certain materials within the right-of-way of certain public structures Synopsis of Senate Amendments 1.

SSHB864 552 6120 HOUSE SUMMARY OF SENATE AMENDMENTS HB 864 2026 Regular Session Knox LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Authorizes municipalities to establish fire limits and to prohibit the storage, placment, accumulation, abandonement, or use of certain materials within the right-of-way of certain public structures Synopsis of Senate Amendments 1.
Makes changes to definitions provided in proposed law.
2.
Removes provisions that provide that any person who willfully and knowingly violates proposed law or any rule, regulation, or order issued under proposed law shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

House Floor Amendment #4268 Knox Adopted

Adopted

Plain English: HFAHB864 552 4268 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY HOUSE FLOOR AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Representative Knox to Engrossed House Bill No.

HFAHB864 552 4268 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY HOUSE FLOOR AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Representative Knox to Engrossed House Bill No.
864 by Representative Knox 1 AMENDMENT NO.
1 2 On page 2, line 8, after "thousand" and before "dollars" delete "five hundred" Page 1 of 1 CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored are additions.

House Floor Amendment #4025 Murray Adopted

Adopted

Plain English: HFAHB864 552 4025 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY HOUSE FLOOR AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Representative Murray to Engrossed House Bill No.

HFAHB864 552 4025 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY HOUSE FLOOR AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Representative Murray to Engrossed House Bill No.
864 by Representative Knox 1 AMENDMENT NO.
1 2 On page 1, line 3, after "storage" insert a comma "," and "placement, accumulation, 3 abandonment, or" 4 AMENDMENT NO.
2 5 On page 1, at the beginning of line 4, delete "and" 6 AMENDMENT NO.

House Floor Amendment #3682 Knox Adopted

Adopted

Plain English: HFAHB864 552 3682 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY HOUSE FLOOR AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Representative Knox to Engrossed House Bill No.

HFAHB864 552 3682 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY HOUSE FLOOR AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Representative Knox to Engrossed House Bill No.
864 by Representative Knox 1 AMENDMENT NO.
1 2 On page 1, line 4, after "structures" delete the remainder of the line and at the beginning of 3 line 5, delete "operated by any municipality in the state;" and insert a semi-colon ";" and "to 4 provide that any parish or municipality may authorize the use of flammable, explosive, or 5 combustible materials for certain events;" 6 AMENDMENT NO.
2 7 On page 1, at the beginning of line 6, delete "an exception;" and insert "exceptions;" 8 AMENDMENT NO.

House Vote on HB 864 CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1698)

Filed

Plain English: 2026 Regular Session Sequence: 1698 HBS AMENDED BY SENATE TO BE CONCURRED IN HB 864 BY KNOX CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS Date: 5/29/2026 Time: 11:25:18 AM 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, R.

2026 Regular Session Sequence: 1698 HBS AMENDED BY SENATE TO BE CONCURRED IN HB 864 BY KNOX CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS Date: 5/29/2026 Time: 11:25:18 AM 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, R.
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.
Hilferty Horton Illg Jackson Johnson, M.

Senate Committee Amendment #3847 L&M Adopted

Adopted

Plain English: SCAHB864 2283 3847 SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senate Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs to Reengrossed House Bill No.

SCAHB864 2283 3847 SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senate Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs to Reengrossed House Bill No.
864 by Representative Knox 1 AMENDMENT NO.
1 2 On page 2, line 10, after "Section" delete the remainder of the line and insert "may be subject 3 to a fine of not more than one thousand dollars" 4 AMENDMENT NO.
2 5 On page 2, delete lines 11 and 12 Page 1 of 1

Senate Committee Amendment #3794 L&M Draft

Draft

Plain English: SCAHB864 2283 3794 SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senate Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs to Reengrossed House Bill No.

SCAHB864 2283 3794 SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS 2026 Regular Session Amendments proposed by Senate Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs to Reengrossed House Bill No.
864 by Representative Knox 1 AMENDMENT NO.
1 2 On page 2, line 10, after "Section" delete the remainder of the line and insert "may be subject 3 to a fine of not more than one thousand dollars" 4 AMENDMENT NO.
2 5 On page 2, delete lines 11 and 12 Page 1 of 1

Bill History

2026-06-08 H
Effective date: 08/01/2026.
2026-06-08 H
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 849.
2026-06-01 H
Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
2026-06-01 S
Signed by the President of the Senate.
2026-05-31 H
Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
2026-05-29 H
Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
2026-05-27 H
Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.
2026-05-26 H
Received from the Senate with amendments.
2026-05-26 S
Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
2026-05-20 S
Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
2026-05-19 S
Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
2026-05-18 S
Reported with amendments.
2026-05-04 S
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs.
2026-04-29 S
Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
2026-04-28 H
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
2026-04-28 H
Called from the calendar.
2026-04-27 H
Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2026.
2026-04-27 H
Notice given.
2026-04-22 H
Read by title, returned to the calendar.
2026-04-22 H
Called from the calendar.
2026-04-20 H
Scheduled for floor debate on 04/22/2026.
2026-04-20 H
Notice given.
2026-04-20 H
Read by title, returned to the calendar.
2026-04-20 H
Called from the calendar.
2026-04-15 H
Scheduled for floor debate on 04/20/2026.
2026-04-15 H
Notice given.
2026-04-15 H
Read by title, returned to the calendar.
2026-04-14 H
Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2026.
2026-04-13 H
Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
2026-04-09 H
Reported favorably (16-0).
2026-03-09 H
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.
2026-02-27 H
First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
2026-02-27 H
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.
2026-02-27 H
Prefiled.

Official Summary Text

HIGHWAYS: Authorizes municipalities to establish fire limits and to prohibit the storage, placement, accumulation, abandonment, or use of certain materials within the right-of-way of certain public structures

Current Bill Text

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ENROLLED
ACT No. 8492026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 864
BY REPRESENTATIVE KNOX
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 33:4741.1, relative to the establishment of fire limits; to authorize a
3 municipality to prevent fires by establishing fire limits and prohibiting the storage,
4 placement, accumulation, abandonment, or use of flammable materials beneath
5 certain structures; to provide that any parish or municipality may authorize the use
6 of flammable, explosive, or combustible materials for certain events; to provide for
7 definitions; to provide for exceptions; to provide for penalties; and to provide for
8 related matters.
9 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
10 Section 1. R.S. 33:4741.1 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
11 §4741.1. Fire limits authorized; storage of flammable, explosive, and combustible
12 materials under structures
13 A. For the purposes of this Section, the following words shall have the
14 following meanings:
15 (1) "Combustible" means a material capable of producing a usually rapid
16 chemical process that creates heat and usually light.
17 (2) "Explosive" means any chemical compound mixture, or device, the
18 primary or common purpose of which is to function by explosion.
19 (3) "Flammable" means a material capable of being easily ignited and
20 burning quickly, including but not limited to candles, bonfires or open flames, or any
21 other flame-producing devices.
22 B. Any municipality in the state may provide for the prevention of fires by
23 establishing fire limits and prohibiting the storage, placement, accumulation,
24 abandonment, or use of flammable, explosive, or combustible material above ground
25 within the right-of-way of a public bridge, overpass, viaduct, or tunnel.
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HB NO. 864 ENROLLED
1 C. Any parish or municipality in the state may authorize the use of
2 flammable, explosive, or combustible materials for events permitted by the parish
3 or municipality, provided that such permits or agreements are subject to all state and
4 federal laws and regulations.
5 D. Any person who willfully and knowingly violates this Section or any rule,
6 regulation, or order issued under this Section may be subject to a fine of not more
7 than one thousand dollars for each violation.
8 E. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to apply to infrastructure owned
9 or operated by member-owned electric cooperatives or investor-owned utilities that
10 are regulated by the Public Service Commission or the governing authority of the
11 city of New Orleans.
12 F. Nothing in this Section shall prohibit temporary, attended activity
13 involving approved equipment or materials when such activity is authorized under
14 otherwise applicable law and complies with all applicable state, federal, parish,
15 municipal, fire, health, traffic, public-safety, and right-of-way requirements.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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