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2025 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 51
BY SENATOR LUNEAU
PUBLIC RECORDS. Provides for public power authority and public records for the city of
Alexandria. (8/1/25)
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 44:3.3(B)(2), relative to public power authority and public
3 records; to provide with respect to the city of Alexandria; to provide relative to
4 commercially sensitive information; to provide for definitions; and to provide for
5 related matters.
6 Notice of intention to introduce this Act has been published.
7 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
8 Section 1. R.S. 44:3.3(B)(2) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
9 ยง3.3. Public power authority; commercially sensitive information
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11 B. For purposes of this Section, the following terms shall have the following
12 meanings:
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14 (2) "Public power authority" means a political subdivision of the state created
15 by the governing authority of a municipality pursuant to R.S. 33:4172, or a utility
16 division or department organized as an enterprise proprietary fund for the city
17 of Alexandria, for the purpose of the construction, acquisition, improvement,
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1 operation, or management of a public power project or improvement.
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by James Benton.
DIGEST
SB 51 Original 2025 Regular Session Luneau
Present law (R.S. 44:3.3) provides that nothing in the public records law shall require the
disclosure of commercially sensitive information in the custody or control of a public power
authority.
Present law provides that a "public power authority" means a political subdivision of the
state created by the governing authority of a municipality pursuant to present law, for the
purpose of the construction, acquisition, improvement, operation, or management of a public
power project or improvement.
Proposed law retains present law but further provides that a "public power authority" shall
also mean a utility division or department organized as an enterprise proprietary fund for the
city of Alexandria.
Effective August 1, 2025.
(Amends R.S. 44:3.3(B)(2))
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