HLS 25RS-1015 ORIGINAL
2025 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 469
BY REPRESENTATIVE CARPENTER
Prefiled pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4)(b)(i) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
COMMERCE: Provides relative to regulations for short-term rentals
1 AN ACT
2To enact Chapter 50 of Title 33 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, to be comprised
3 of R.S. 33:9721, relative to regulations for short-term rentals; to provide for
4 regulations a municipality or parish may implement; to provide for definitions; and
5 to provide for related matters.
6Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. Chapter 50 of Title 33 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950,
8comprised of R.S. 33:9721, is hereby enacted to read as follows:
9 CHAPTER 50. GENERAL REGULATIONS: SHORT-TERM RENTALS
10 ยง9721. Short-term rentals
11 A. A municipality or parish may adopt ordinances to regulate short-term
12 rentals.
13 B. To regulate a short-term rental, a municipality or parish may do all of the
14 following:
15 (1) Require a permit for short-term rental owners.
16 (2) Create a registration of short-term rental owners.
17 (3) Create fines relative to the misuse of short-term rentals.
18 (4) Require minimum safety standards for short-term rentals.
19 (5) Require inspections for short-term rentals.
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1 (6) Restrict the length of time a renter is allowed to stay consecutively at a
2 short-term rental.
3 (7) Restrict the amount of occupants in a short-term rental.
4 C. For the purposes of this Section, "short-term rental" means the rental of
5 residential property for overnight accommodations for transient guests for a period
6 of less than twenty-nine days.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 469 Original 2025 Regular Session Carpenter
Abstract: Provides relative to the regulation of short-term rentals.
Proposed law provides that a municipality or parish may adopt ordinances to regulate short-
term rentals.
Proposed law provides for what a municipality or parish may do to regulate a short-term
rental.
Proposed law defines "short-term rental".
(Adds R.S. 33:9721)
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