SB 24

2026 Regular Session  ENROLLED
  ACT No. 199
 SENATE BILL NO. 24
 BY SENATORS CONNICK, ABRAHAM, ALLAIN, BARROW, BARTHELEMY, BASS,
  BOUDREAUX, CARTER, CLOUD, DUPLESSIS, EDMONDS, FESI,
  FOIL, HARRIS, HENRY, HENSGENS, HODGES, JACKSON-
  ANDREWS, JENKINS, KLEINPETER, LAMBERT, LUNEAU,
  MCMATH, MILLER, MIZELL, MORRIS, MYERS, OWEN, PRESSLY,
  PRICE, REESE, SEABAUGH, SELDERS, STINE, TALBOT, WHEAT
  AND WOMACK AND REPRESENTATIVES BOUDREAUX,
  BOURRIAQUE, BOYER, BROUSSARD, CHASSION, DICKERSON,
  FONTENOT, MOORE, MURRAY, SAWYER, SCHAMERHORN,
  WALTERS AND WILEY
1AN ACT
2 To provide relative to state highways; to designate Interstate 49 in the state of Louisiana as
3"Senator J. Bennett Johnston Jr. Memorial Highway"; to provide for location and
4placement of signage; to provide for restrictions on costs of materials to the
5department; and to provide for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, Interstate
8 49 in its entirety in the state of Louisiana beginning where Interstate 49 intersects with
9 Interstate 10 in Lafayette Parish, extending north through the state of Louisiana, is
10 hereby designated as "Senator J. Bennett Johnston Jr. Memorial Highway".
11Section 2. The Department of Transportation and Development is hereby
12 directed to erect and maintain appropriate signs of this designation provided local or
13 private monies are received by the department equal to the department's actual costs
14 for material, fabrication, mounting posts, and installation of each sign, not to exceed
15 the sum of two thousand two hundred fifty dollars per sign.
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SB NO. 24  ENROLLED
1Section 3. The provisions of this Act shall not cause any other state highway
2 designation along Interstate 49 to be repealed or replaced. The department shall not
3 remove any state highway designations currently provided for in law along Interstate
4 49 due to any provision within this Act and unless specific legislation succeeding this
5 Act is enacted to require the removal.
  PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
  SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
  GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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