SEWERAGE/N O WATER BD: Provides relative to billing for services provided by the sewerage and water board of New Orleans
This bill updates how the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board calculates and presents water bills for all customers, removing the distinction between residential and commercial clients in certain billing contexts. It establishes a new arbitration system with two appointed arbiters per team to handle billing disputes, requiring these teams to hold regular public meetings in each city district to review customer cases. Additionally, the law mandates that existing residential customers receive their fixed rate bills within 120 days of the act's effective date.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
House Passage
Apr 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
May 2024
Introduced Apr 9, 2024
Signed May 28, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 16, 2024 · House Apr 16, 2024
How they voted
39–0
Passed
Total votes 39
May 16, 2024
D
Democratic11
100% Yea
R
Republican28
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
16
Key actions
4
Committee
3
May 16, 2024
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 6, 2024
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 1, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 16, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 9, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 574 reported by the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs (11-0).
lower
1 primary · 29 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Stephanie Hilferty
RRepublican
Co
Adrian Fisher
DDemocratic
Co
Aimee Freeman
DDemocratic
Co
Alonzo Knox
DDemocratic
Co
Barbara Freiberg
RRepublican
Co
Beth Billings
RRepublican
Co
Candace Newell
DDemocratic
Co
Chuck Owen
RRepublican
Co
Delisha Boyd
DDemocratic
Co
Denise Marcelle
DDemocratic
Co
Foy Gadberry
RRepublican
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