Agenda - Transportation, Highways and Public Works

Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works
May 21, 2026 9:30 a.m. Room E
Adjourned
* Agenda Revised May 20, 2026, 4:11 pm * Revision Notes: Meeting time changed to 9:30 a.m. & added HB 582

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CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
	Consider and approve the meeting minutes dated May 14, 2026.
LEGISLATION TO BE CONSIDERED
		HCR32	BAYHAM	PORTS/NEW ORLEANS - Urges and requests the Port of New Orleans to secure additional backup motors for the St. Claude Avenue Bridge
		HCR53	SCHAMERHORN	LOCAL GOVERNMENT - Establishes a study committee to examine the issue of oversized vehicle permits and related impacts
		HCR60	MCMAKIN	HIGHWAYS/INTERSTATE - Urges and requests the Department of Transportation and Development to study the benefits of implementing the D.R.I.V.E. Initiative (Department of Transportation and Development's Responsibility for Interstate 12 Vitality and Efficiency) for major improvements to the shoulders and capacity of the Interstate 12 and Interstate 55 Interchange
		HCR68	BAYHAM	TRANSPORTATION - Memorializes Congress to secure federal funding to remove four closed bridges on United States Highway 90 in St. Tammany Parish
		HB582	BAYHAM	MTR VEHICLE/OFFICE - Provides relative to reinstatement fees for lapses of vehicle liability security (RE DECREASE SG RV See Note)
		HB730	CREWS	AIRCRAFT/AVIATION - Provides relative to the use of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast systems (RE SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)
		HB762	BAYHAM	MTR VEHICLE/OFFICE - Prohibits the Office of Motor Vehicles from referring certain cases to the Office of Debt Recovery
CONSIDERATION OF ANY OTHER MATTERS THAT MAY COME BEFORE THE COMMITTEE

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