GREEN SHEET REDIGEST
HB 354 2024 Regular Session Brass
DISTRICTS/ROAD LIGHTING: Provides for the renaming of road lighting districts
and the allocation of funding.
DIGEST
Present law authorizes parish governing authorities to create road lighting districts and to
consolidate existing districts. Road lighting districts are authorized to enter into contracts
with an electric public utility to provide and maintain electric lights on the roads and in
public places. Provides that the parish governing authority is the governing authority of such
a district and the parish treasurer is the district's treasurer. Authorizes road lighting districts
to levy ad valorem taxes subject to voter approval.
Proposed law provides that a parish governing authority may also authorize any such district
it creates or any consolidated district it creates pursuant to present law to use up to 25% of
its funds to purchase, install, operate, and maintain electronic safety equipment.
Proposed law provides that a parish governing authority may designate a district that is
authorized to use funds in accordance with present law as a security and road lighting district
in a form similar to that provided by proposed law for road lighting districts.
Proposed law provides that unless context indicates otherwise, references to road lighting
districts in present law include any district designated by a parish governing authority as a
security and road lighting district.
(Amends the heading of Chapter 7 of Title 48 of La. Revised Statutes of 1950 and R.S.
48:1306, 1307, and 1308)
Summary of Amendments Adopted by House
The House Floor Amendments to the engrossed bill:
1. Make technical changes.
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Local and Municipal
Affairs to the reengrossed bill
1. Provides that a parish governing authority may also authorize any such
district it creates or any consolidated district it creates pursuant to present law
to use up to 25% of its funds to purchase, install, operate, and maintain
electronic safety equipment
2. Provides that a parish governing authority may designate a district that is
authorized to use funds in accordance with present law as a security and road
lighting district in a form similar to that provided by proposed law.
3. Provides that unless context indicates otherwise, references to road lighting
districts include any district designated by a parish governing authority as a
security and road lighting district.
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Prepared by James Benton.