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HB96 • 2026

CRIME: Provides relative to penalties for drag racing and racing on public roads (OR SEE FISC NOTE SD RV)

CRIME: Provides relative to penalties for drag racing and racing on public roads (OR SEE FISC NOTE SD RV)

Crime
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Dixon McMakin
Last action
2026-03-09
Official status
Pending House Transportation, Highways, and Public Works - Considered 3/30/26
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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CRIME: Provides relative to penalties for drag racing and racing on public roads (OR SEE FISC NOTE SD RV)

CRIME: Provides relative to penalties for drag racing and racing on public roads (OR SEE FISC NOTE SD RV)

What This Bill Does

  • CRIME: Provides relative to penalties for drag racing and racing on public roads (OR SEE FISC NOTE SD RV)

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-09 H

    Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.

  2. 2026-02-13 H

    First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/13/2026.

  3. 2026-02-09 H

    Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.

  4. 2026-02-09 H

    Prefiled.

Official Summary Text

CRIME: Provides relative to penalties for drag racing and racing on public roads (OR SEE FISC NOTE SD RV)

Current Bill Text

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HLS 26RS-538 ORIGINAL
2026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 96
BY REPRESENTATIVE MCMAKIN
CRIME: Provides relative to penalties for drag racing and racing on public roads
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 32:65(F), relative to illegal speed contests; to provide relative
3 to drag racing and racing on public roads; to provide relative to penalties; to increase
4 the amount of days for which a car is impounded; and to provide for related matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 32:65(F) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 §65. Drag racing and racing on public roads and certain property; exemptions
8 * * *
9 F. Any law enforcement agency authorized to enforce traffic regulations in
10 this state shall have the authority to impound, at the owner's expense, any vehicle
11 driven in a manner that violates this Section for up to fourteen not less than thirty
12 days to gather evidence pertaining to the offense. If the owner of the vehicle has not
13 violated this Section, that owner may claim the vehicle from the impound facility
14 once notified by law enforcement. In addition, if the vehicle driven in a manner that
15 violates this Section has been rented from a car rental agency, only the driver of the
16 vehicle shall be subject to higher fines and the total cost of impound fees. The car
17 rental agency, or person who owns the vehicle, may claim the vehicle from the
18 impound facility once notified by law enforcement.
19 * * *
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.
HLS 26RS-538 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 96
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 96 Original 2026 Regular Session McMakin
Abstract: Requires law enforcement agencies to impound a car used in drag racing for at
least 30 days.
Present law authorizes law enforcement agencies to impound a car used in drag racing for
up to 14 days.
Proposed law amends present law and requires law enforcement agencies to impound a car
used in drag racing for at least 30 days.
(Amends R.S. 32:65(F))
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.