SB 226 Louisiana Senate · 2025 Regular Session

CONTRACTS: Prohibits foreign adversaries and prohibited foreign actors from participating in certain property transactions. (gov sig)

SB 226 establishes new regulations concerning property transactions. The bill prohibits "foreign adversaries" and "prohibited foreign actors" from participating in specific property-related contracts. Its core mechanism is to prevent these identified entities from being involved in certain real estate or other property dealings. Recent amendments have focused on clarifying the exact definitions of "foreign actor" and "prohibited foreign actor" within the bill's text.

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Apr 2025

Committee Review

May 2025

Senate Passage

May 2025

House Passage

Governor

Introduced Apr 4, 2025 Last action May 14, 2025

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SB226 Engrossed → Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1615, Hodges, Adopted · 3 edits

MINOR

The Senate Bureau Note shows that Amendment No. 1 was adopted to correct a citation error in the bill, changing a reference to U.S. immigration law from Section 1158 to Section 1101. Amendments 2 through 6 were also adopted to update specific legal citations and to consistently replace the phrase 'person connected with a foreign adversary' with 'prohibited foreign actor' throughout the text, likely to align with the bill's defined terminology.

TECHNICAL

Corrected a citation to U.S. Code from 8 U.S.C. 1158 to 8 U.S.C. 1101.

Updated a legal citation from '§7.4' to 'Part 791.4'.

DEFINITION

Standardized the terminology by replacing 'person connected with a foreign adversary' with 'prohibited foreign actor' in multiple instances.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

Full legislative history

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Total actions

Key actions

Committee

May 14, 2025

Upper · Passed

Senate floor amendments read and adopted.

upper

May 8, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported with amendments.

upper

Apr 14, 2025

Committee

Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.

upper

1 primary · 2 co-sponsors