Restricts ticket resales above face value and prohibits speculative ticket sales.

Key Provisions:

- Requires ticket face value (excluding fees) to be printed on the ticket.

- Prohibits reselling tickets for more than the face value plus original fees and taxes.

- Bans the sale or advertisement of speculative tickets (tickets not in the reseller's possession).

- Allows resale only if the platform guarantees full refunds for: event cancellation, delivery failure, or denied entry (unless caused by buyer).

- Limits resale platform service fees to 10%.

- Violations are subject to fines ($100–$500) and penalties under unfair trade practices law.

- Exemptions: university student tickets and legislator-allocated tickets.

Effective Date: August 1, 2025.

HOUSE floor amendments [LINK] shift responsibility for sanitation and safety training from the Louisiana State Board of Cosmetology to the Office of Public Health within the Louisiana Department of Health. They require mobile salon owners to complete sanitation training annually, administered by the Office of Public Health. Additionally, the amendments remove certain certification requirements for mobile salons, clarifying that mobile salons are exempt from the certification of registration required for traditional beauty shops or salons.

HOUSE committee amendments technical

Proposes amendments to the Louisiana Cosmetology Act to establish a special permit for natural hair braiding services. The bill defines "natural hair braiding" as the twisting, wrapping, weaving, extending, locking, or braiding of hair by hand or with mechanical devices, including the use of natural or synthetic hair extensions and decorative accessories. It explicitly excludes activities involving dyes, reactive chemicals, or chemical hair joining agents. To obtain the special permit, applicants must review sanitation and safety training materials prepared by the Louisiana State Board of Cosmetology, pass a 15-question examination with at least a 70% score, complete the application process, and pay a fee not exceeding $25.

Specifically, the bill exempts natural hair braiding services from the broader licensing requirements applicable to cosmetologists, recognizing the distinct nature of these services. Additionally, it preempts local governments from regulating natural hair braiding, ensuring a uniform statewide standard.

HOUSE floor amendments [LINK] create separate certifications: an "alternative hair design" registration for natural hair braiding within licensed salons, and a "natural hair braiding" special permit for practice outside salons. They establish training, examination, sanitation, fees, renewal, inspection requirements, consumer protections, and set an effective date of January 1, 2026, for braiding permits.

Defines natural hair braiding as an unregulated service, exempt from state and local licensing. Preempts local regulation. Creates optional 500-hour certification for “alternative hair designers” who want to use that title or work in licensed salons. Braiders not using chemicals or dyes may operate freely without a license.

Other HOUSE floor amendments technical

HOUSE floor amendment set 3126 [LINK] adds a new section that exempts a specific legal case from the bill’s provisions. It states that the bill will not apply retroactively to the case Cantium, LLC v. Rosefield Fourchon Operating, LLC, currently pending before the Louisiana Public Service Commission, or to any appeals or related claims between the parties in that case. This ensures that the outcome of that ongoing dispute will not be affected by the changes made in the bill.

HOUSE committee amendment [LINK] clarifies pipes and equipment used only inside a petroleum terminal are excluded from pipeline regulations, and companies that aren't common carriers are also excluded.

Clarifies that only petroleum pipeline facilities that are necessary or integral to pipeline transportation fall under regulation by the Public Service Commission. It excludes terminal facilities (e.g., small pipes, meters, tanks) and truck unloading facilities from regulation. The bill also defines "common carrier" and "pipeline" more narrowly and applies both retroactively and prospectively.

HOUSE floor amendments [LINK] give the Office of Broadband Development exclusive authority to regulate and enforce compliance for GUMBO 2.0 and later broadband programs. The office can set rules, investigate complaints, impose penalties, and must provide a complaint process. Other agencies are barred from oversight unless authorized. Earlier deployments are exempt.

Expands administrative costs and oversight of the GUMBO broadband program by increasing administrative funds to 2.5% for the Office of Broadband Development and Connectivity and 2.5% for contractors, allowing flexible reimbursement thresholds for GUMBO 1.0 and 2.0 grantees, establishing GUMBO 3.0 for non-deployment grants in sectors like healthcare and agriculture, and creating GUMBO 4.0 for digital opportunity initiatives. It grants the office exclusive authority to set rules, investigate noncompliance, enforce penalties, and manage complaints, ensuring more broadband program oversight of this very troubled program.

HOUSE floor amendments technical

HOUSE committee amendments [LINK] remove page three lines 10-19 in their entirety which are generally about how hair braiding is not a licensed action, etc. See BILL LINK page three.

Amends and repeals certain licensing requirements and regulations administered by the Louisiana State Board of Cosmetology regarding alternative hair and alternative hair design. It eliminates the special permit and the 500-hour instructional requirement for practitioners of alternative hair styling, citing the lack of significant health or safety risks and unnecessary barriers to economic opportunity.

Key Provisions: 

- Amends definitions for "alternative hair" and "alternative hair design," clarifying what activities are included and explicitly excluding the use of chemical or dye treatments on natural hair. 

- Removes the requirement for a Special Permit for Alternative Hair Design, previously mandatory for individuals practicing alternative hair styling. 

- Eliminates the rule mandating practitioners of alternative hair design to operate only within licensed cosmetology salons. 

- Repeals the mandatory 500-hour curriculum previously required for alternative hair design licensing. 

- Requires the state register to update the Louisiana Administrative Code accordingly.

The resolution argues that current licensing rules for alternative hair styling impose unnecessary economic barriers without providing meaningful health or safety protections.