Foy Gadberry — House - District 15
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Live from the 2025 Regular Session
(1400 House floor votes analyzed - so far...)
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House Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs
🏛 House📅 No upcoming hearing scheduled
🕗 Bills Pending: 52
Sponsored Bills
HB103: Creates the crime of indecent visual depiction of a minor (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
Last Action: Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
Date: 2025-04-14
Author: Foy Gadberry (R)
Pending: 🏛 Administration of Criminal Justice 61 📅 Not Scheduled
HB85: Provides relative to permits for construction (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)
Last Action: Effective date: 08/01/2025.
Date: 2025-06-11
Author: Foy Gadberry (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
HOUSE floor amendment technical.
HOUSE Commerce committee amendment [LINK] strikes parish or municipality requirement to provide any individual permit data upon request. "(3) Provide, upon request, individual permit data."
Implications:
Could raise costs for contractors due to new rules. Small contractors could struggle with these extra costs. Also, the law doesn’t let local areas opt out, which might conflict with their desire to control their own rules instead of following a single statewide standard.
The bill creates a new law (R.S. 40:1730.23(K)) to set consistent roofing permit and inspection rules for cities and parishes in Louisiana
- For non-residential buildings (except one- and two-family homes), roofing must follow Chapter 15 of the International Building Code.
- For one- and two-family homes, roofing must meet Chapters 8 and 9 of the International Residential Code, as adopted by Louisiana’s Uniform Construction Code.
- Permit information must be shared when requested.
HB312: Prohibits the state and any of its political subdivisions or agencies from using price or price-related information as a factor in the selection of architectural and engineering professional services for certain projects (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Last Action: Effective date: 08/01/2025.
Date: 2025-06-08
Author: Foy Gadberry (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
SENATE committee amendments technical
HOUSE floor amendments [LINK] add requirement that political subdivisions, agencies, or their contractors must negotiate professional service contracts at a fair and reasonable rate. If they can’t reach an agreement with the chosen firm, they must end negotiations and move to the next firm, repeating the process until a deal is made. This ensures a clear, fair process for contract negotiations.
HOUSE committee amendments technical
COST ALWAYS must be considered for public contracts.
Seeks to amend Louisiana's policy on selecting architectural and engineering professional services. The proposed legislation would prohibit the state, its political subdivisions, agencies, and their contractors from considering price or price-related information when selecting architects, engineers, landscape architects, and land surveyors for projects funded with state or local resources. This amendment aims to ensure that selections are based solely on competence and qualifications, aligning with the state's existing "No Bidding of Architectural and Engineering Professional Services" policy.
HB318: Provides relative to manufactured and modular housing in flood-prone areas
Last Action: Effective date: 08/01/2025.
Date: 2025-06-11
Author: Foy Gadberry (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
Proposes amendments to R.S. 51:912.22(8) concerning the installation standards for manufactured and modular homes in flood-prone areas. The bill mandates that such homes' foundations comply with the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) "Manufactured Home Installation In Flood Hazard Areas" manual. It also prohibits state and local subdivisions from enforcing regulations more restrictive than FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program standards. Additionally, the bill requires that permits issued by local jurisdictions include both the Base Flood Elevation and the Free Board Elevation of the finished floor, as indicated on the current Flood Insurance Rate Map.
HB347: Provides relative to Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget approval of capital outlay change orders (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Last Action: Effective date: 06/08/2025.
Date: 2025-06-08
Author: Foy Gadberry (R)
Co-sponsors: Glen Womack (R)
📅 Not Scheduled
DEFER TO Tarver/Geymann
Proposes changes to the approval thresholds for capital outlay project change orders. Currently, the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget (JLCB) must approve any change order exceeding $100,000 per month, and review (without requiring approval) change orders between $50,000 and $100,000. The bill seeks to raise the approval threshold to $250,000 and adjust the review range to between $50,000 and $250,000. The bill would become effective upon the governor's signature or upon lapse of time for gubernatorial action.
HCR20: Recognizes April 30, 2025, as LMA Municipal Day at the state capitol
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: 2025-05-05
Author: Foy Gadberry (R)
Co-sponsors: Joseph Bouie (D)
📅 Not Scheduled
Creates the crime of "indecent visual depiction of a minor" (R.S. 14:81.7). It prohibits transmitting indecent images of a minor’s intimate parts with malicious intent (e.g., to abuse, harass, or gratify sexually), with no defense for ignorance of age. Penalties escalate: up to 6 months and $1,000 for a first offense, 5 years and $5,000 for a second (plus sex offender registration), and 10 years and $10,000 for a third. Exceptions protect service providers and legitimate transmissions (e.g., to investigators, doctors, or parents without malice). Venue covers where the act occurred or the image was handled. It strengthens Louisiana’s laws against minor exploitation.