Agenda - Transportation, Highways and Public Works

House Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works
April 13, 2026 9:30 a.m. Room 3
Scheduled

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CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
DISCUSSION OF LEGISLATION
		HB345	MCMAKIN	RAILROADS - Provides with respect to the Rail Infrastructure Improvement Program (OR NO IMPACT See Note)
		HB502	MCCORMICK	PORTS/HARBORS/TERMINALS - Provides relative to the authority of the Caddo Parish Port Commission to use the payment in lieu of taxes program (OR NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)
		HB511	GLORIOSO	HIGHWAYS/OFFICE - Authorizes the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Criminal Justice to establish a grant program for pursuit intervention technologies
		HB655	BRAUD	BRIDGES/FERRIES - Authorizes the Department of Transportation and Development to enter into contracts for the operation and maintenance of ferry systems
		HB667	MCCORMICK	BOARDS/COMMISSIONS - Changes the selection process for members of the Caddo-Bossier Parishes Port Commission from appointed to elected (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)
		HB713	MCCORMICK	PORTS/HARBORS/TERMINALS - Establishes that the total compensation of the executive port director of the Caddo-Bossier Parishes Port Commission cannot exceed the statewide average compensation of the top ten port directors in Louisiana (OR DECREASE LF EX See Note)
		HB714	PHELPS	RAILROADS - Requires local railroad companies to remediate or remove blighted or abandoned railroad lines and associated structures
		HB730	CREWS	AIRCRAFT/AVIATION - Provides relative to the use of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast systems (OR DECREASE LF RV See Note)
		HB743	ST. BLANC	DISTRICTS/AIRPORT - Creates the Harry P. Williams Memorial Airport District in St. Mary Parish
		HB777	MCMAKIN	MOTOR VEHICLES - Requires driver's license renewal knowledge examination (OR +$20,000 GF EX See Note)
		HB803	BAYHAM	PORTS/NEW ORLEANS - Changes the membership of the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans
		HB836	HILFERTY	LEVEES/BDS & DISTRICTS - Modifies the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East and the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-West
		HB871	CARVER	PORTS/NEW ORLEANS - Provides relative to the membership the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans
		HB1037	BOURRIAQUE	TRANSPORTATION DEPT - Modifies operations and certain positions within the Department of Transportation and Development (OR INCREASE SD EX See Note)
		HB1167	GLORIOSO	HIGHWAYS - Designates certain portions of highways in Louisiana
		HB1174	BOURRIAQUE	TRANSPORTATION DEPT - Re-creates the Department of Transportation and Development
		HB1175	TURNER	AIRCRAFT/AIRPORTS - Provides with respect to definitions pertaining to aeronautics
OTHER BUSINESS
	To consider the use of the Construction Management at Risk (CMAR) method for: Beekman Charter School to construct the Jr. High Building pursuant to R.S. 38:2225.2.4
	To consider the use of the Construction Management at Risk (CMAR) method for: Conversion construction of Lincoln Parish Early Childhood Center to the Lincoln Parish School Board Central Office pursuant to R.S. 38:2225.2.4(3)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ADJOURNMENT

Any interested person or any committee member may file with the committee a prepared statement concerning a specific instrument or matter under consideration by the committee or concerning any matter within the committee's scope of authority, and the committee records shall reflect receipt of such statement and the date and time thereof.

NOTE: Statements may be filed with the House Transportation, Highways and Public Works via e-mail at h-thpw@legis.la.gov. Statements submitted, and the information contained therein, are public records and subject to disclosure pursuant to public record laws.

Audio/visual presentations, such as PowerPoint, shall be filed with the House Transportation, Highways and Public Works Committee via email at h-thpw@legis.la.gov at least 24 hours prior to the scheduled start of the committee meeting. No flash or thumb drives will be accepted.