Agenda - Ways and Means

House Committee on Ways and Means
April 7, 2026 9:00 a.m. Room 6
Scheduled

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CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
INSTRUMENTS TO BE HEARD
	HCR35	WYBLE	TAX/PROPERTY - Urges and requests the Louisiana State Law Institute to study and make recommendations regarding expiditing the sale of adjudicated tax-delinquent property
	HB440	NEWELL	TAX EXEMPTIONS/HOMESTEAD - (Constitutional Amendment) Authorizes a parish governing authority to increase the amount of the homestead exemption (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)
	HB515	MARCELLE	PROPERTY/IMMOVABLE - Authorizes a political subdivision to sell certain adjudicated property directly to a buyer (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)
	HB543	NEWELL	TAX EXEMPTIONS/HOMESTEAD - Provides relative to the homestead exemption (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)
	HB614	JACKSON	TAX/TAX REBATES - Authorizes a rebate of state sales taxes paid by businesses on lodging and meals for persons performing disaster or emergency-related work (OR +$95,463 SG EX See Note)
	HB1010	DESHOTEL	TAX/AD VALOREM TAX - Requires annual reporting on amounts of ad valorem taxes collected in each parish
	HB1039	DESHOTEL	TAX/SALES-USE, LOCAL - Provides for local sales and use tax audit procedures (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)
	HB1088	BACALA	TAX/TAX REBATES - Authorizes a state and local sales and use tax rebate on the purchase of certain items used in aerospace facilities and activities
	HB1122	BEAULLIEU	TAX/INCOME TAX - Establishes a calculation to be used for reducing the rate of the state tax levied on individuals
	HB1179	BACALA	TAX/AD VALOREM-MFG/EXEMP - Extends eligibility for the ad valorem tax exemption for certain manufacturing establishments to certain aerospace manufacturing establishments
	HB1200	BUTLER	CAPITAL OUTLAY - Provides for the Louisiana Rural Infrastructure Revolving Loan Program
OTHER BUSINESS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ADJOURNMENT

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