Troy Romero — House - District 37
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Live from the 2025 Regular Session
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Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture and Rural Development Committee
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🕗 Bills Pending: 2
Sponsored Bills
HB35: Provides for a minimum mandatory sentence for certain hit and run driving offenses (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
Last Action: Effective date: 08/01/2025.
Date: 2025-06-08
Author: Troy Romero (R)
Co-sponsors: Phillip Tarver (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
HB641: Authorizes the governing authority of Jefferson Davis Parish to determine whether Class VI carbon dioxide injection wells may be permitted within the parish
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.
Date: 2025-04-23
Author: Troy Romero (R)
Pending: 🏛 Municipal 52 📅 Not Scheduled
This one is going through municipal instead of Natural Resources as it lets local governing authority vote on injection wells.
Authorizes Jefferson Davis Parish to ban or allow Class VI carbon dioxide injection wells.
Key Provisions:
- Grants Jefferson Davis Parish governing authority the power to prohibit or permit Class VI CO₂ injection wells via ordinance or resolution.
- Requires the parish to notify the Department of Energy and Natural Resources of any such action.
- Overrides state permitting authority in Jefferson Davis Parish if a local prohibition is enacted.
- Becomes effective upon the governor’s signature or default enactment timeline.
HB412: Provides relative to alternative nicotine products
Last Action: Effective date: 08/01/2025.
Date: 2025-06-11
Author: Troy Romero (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
HOUSE floor amendment [LINK] Amendment increases permit fees for nicotine product sales, bans remote sales to anyone except licensed dealers, requires strict age verification for online orders and deliveries, and imposes escalating civil and criminal penalties for violations.
Proposes amendments to R.S. 26:926.1 concerning alternative nicotine products. The bill mandates that manufacturers of these products, whose items are sold in Louisiana, must submit a certification to the state's alcohol and tobacco commission. This certification should confirm, under penalty of perjury, one of the following:
1. The product was available in the U.S. market as of April 14, 2022, and the manufacturer submitted a premarket tobacco product application to the FDA by May 14, 2022. The application is either still under FDA review or has received a "no marketing" order that is currently under appeal.
2. The manufacturer has obtained a marketing order or other authorization for the product under 21 U.S.C. 387j from the FDA.
Additionally, manufacturers are required to provide a copy of the cover page of their premarket tobacco product application, along with evidence of the FDA's receipt, or a copy of the FDA's marketing order or authorization. They must also inform the commissioner within thirty days of any significant changes to the certification, such as the FDA issuing a market order, requiring product removal, or any other action affecting the product's market status.
HB523: Provides for the payment of vendor's compensation for the timely collection and remittance of state and local sales taxes (EG1 DECREASE LF RV See Note)
Last Action: Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
Date: 2025-05-29
Author: Troy Romero (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
All HOUSE committee amendments technical but one which adjusted the rate "one and five hundredths percent" to "eighty-four hundredths of one percent" of the amount of tax due in remittance of the tax levied by local ordinance.
Authorizes municipalities to compensate dealers for collecting and remitting local sales taxes by allowing a vendor’s compensation deduction at a rate set by local ordinance.
Key Provisions:
- Dealers may deduct vendor’s compensation when submitting sales tax returns, if payment is timely and not delinquent.
- Credits for taxes already paid to wholesalers cannot be included in the vendor’s compensation calculation.
- The uniform electronic return system must allow for non-uniform vendor’s compensation rates across jurisdictions.
- The Sales and Use Tax Commission for Remote Sellers must apply each jurisdiction’s vendor compensation rate if the return is filed and taxes are paid on time.
- Monthly distributions to local taxing authorities will be reduced accordingly to reflect vendor compensation deductions.
Impact:
Provides flexibility for local governments to incentivize timely tax remittance by dealers, while maintaining local control over compensation rates.
HB57: Authorizes the Jefferson Davis Parish School Board to levy an additional sales and use tax
Last Action: Effective date: 06/08/2025.
Date: 2025-06-08
Author: Troy Romero (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
MORE TAXES AND MORE TAXES AND MORE TAXES
Enacts R.S. 47:338.199 to allow the Jefferson Davis Parish School Board to levy an additional sales and use tax up to 0.5%, subject to voter approval. Exceeding the state’s 3% local tax cap but within the 5% total limit (excluding state taxes), it applies to retail sales, use, leases, and services in the parish. Collected like existing taxes, it requires an ordinance and election under Louisiana Election Code.
HB66: Provides relative to qualifications for participation in the Employee Insurance Fund for the Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff's Office (EN NO IMPACT LF EX See Note)
Last Action: Effective date: 08/01/2025.
Date: 2025-05-28
Author: Troy Romero (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
HCR33: Memorializes Congress to modify the H-2B temporary non-agricultural program to assist with labor workforce shortage in the state
Last Action: Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.
Date: 2025-06-05
Author: Troy Romero (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
HCR51: Memorializes Congress and the United States Department of Agriculture to reinstate and fund the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program
Last Action: Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.
Date: 2025-06-11
Author: Troy Romero (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
Urges Congress and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reinstate and fund the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program, emphasizing its benefits for Louisiana farmers, local food systems, and access to fresh, locally grown food for underserved populations.
HR21: Commends the Lacassine High School boys' basketball team on winning the Louisiana High School Athletic Association 2025 Class B state championship
Last Action: Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.
Date: 2025-04-16
Author: Troy Romero (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
HR24: Commends the Louisiana Nursery and Landscape Association for its "Plants Make a Difference" campaign
Last Action: Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.
Date: 2025-04-17
Author: Troy Romero (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
HR355: Urges and requests the United States Environmental Protection Agency to take action on feral hog toxicant testing and registration
Last Action: Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.
Date: 2025-06-13
Author: Troy Romero (R)
Co-sponsors: Daryl Adams (D) Beryl Amedee (R) Dennis Bamburg (R) Mike Bayham (R) Stephanie Berault (R) Beth Billings (R) Ryan Bourriaque (R) Delisha Boyd (D) Chad Boyer (R) Jacob Braud (R) Chad Brown (D) Marcus Bryant (D) Rhonda Butler (R) Barbara Carpenter (D) Dewith Carrier (R) Robert Carter (D) Kim Carver (R) Kimberly Coates (R) Raymond Crews (R) Phillip DeVillier (R) Jason DeWitt (R) Kellee Dickerson (R) Jessica Domangue (R) Michael Echols (R) Peter Egan (R) Julie Emerson (R) Les Farnum (R) Gabe Firment (R) Adrian Fisher (D) Bryan Fontenot (R) Barbara Freiberg (R) Chance Henry (R) Dodie Horton (R) John Illg (R) Steven Jackson (D) Travis Johnson (D) Timothy Kerner (R) Jeremy LaCombe (R) Jacob Landry (R) Terry Landry Jr. (D) Shane Mack (R) Danny McCormick (R) Jack McFarland (R) Wayne McMahen (R) Dixon McMakin (R) Michael Melerine (R) Joseph Orgeron (R) Neil Riser (R) Rodney Schamerhorn (R) Annie Spell (R) Vincent St. Blanc (R) Sylvia Taylor (D) Francis Thompson (R) Christopher Turner (R) Roger Wilder (R) John Wyble (R) Jerome Zeringue (R)
...and 52 more.
📅 Not Scheduled
HR46: Designates Thursday, May 8, 2025, as the 4-H Day and commends the state officers of 4-H
Last Action: Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.
Date: 2025-04-25
Author: Troy Romero (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
HR47: Designates Thursday, May 1, 2025 as FFA Day at the state capitol and commends the state officers of the Louisiana FFA Association
Last Action: Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.
Date: 2025-04-25
Author: Troy Romero (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
HR55: Commends Dr. Steve Harrison on his induction into the 2025 Louisiana Agriculture Hall of Distinction
Last Action: Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.
Date: 2025-04-25
Author: Troy Romero (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
Amends R.S. 14:100(C)(2) to strengthen penalties for hit-and-run driving in Louisiana when death or serious bodily injury occurs and the driver knew or should have known. Currently, the penalty is a fine up to $5,000 or imprisonment with or without hard labor for up to 10 years. The proposed law sets a minimum sentence of two years imprisonment, mandates that these two years be served without parole, probation, or suspension, and retains the maximum of 10 years and $5,000 fine. This change aims to ensure a stricter, mandatory punishment for severe hit-and-run offenses.