The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument, were prepared by Tyler S. McCloud.
DIGEST
SB 176 Original 2020 Regular Session Allain
Proposed law authorizes the commissioner of administration may enter into agreements with riparian
landowners to establish a permanent, fixed boundary between state owned or claimed and privately
owned or claimed waterbottoms, regardless of the navigability of the water body.
Proposed law authorizes the state in such agreements to accept a donation of any riparian landowner
owned or claimed lands or water bottoms, subject to a perpetual reservation of minerals, regardless
of any subsequent erosion or loss of the land donated, or of the present or future navigability of the
water bottom donated.
Proposed law requires all agreements and donations to provide that the public shall enjoy a
permanent right of reasonable, regulated public access over all present water bottoms allocated to
the riparian landowner and all future water bottoms created from the riparian land as a result of
natural erosion, subsidence or rising sea levels.
Effective if and when the proposed amendment of Article IX, Section 3 and 4(A) of the Constitution
of Louisiana contained in the Act which originated as SB ____ of the 2020 RS is adopted at the
statewide election to be held on November 3, 2020, and becomes effective.
(Adds R.S. 41:211)