HB 375

HLS 26RS-1090  ORIGINAL
 2026 Regular Session
 HOUSE BILL NO. 375
 BY REPRESENTATIVE FREEMAN
 LIABILITY/CIVIL:  Establishes a limitation of liability relative to regional transit
  operations
1AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 9:2800.31, relative to liability; to provide a limitation of liability relative to
3regional transit operations; to provide relative to street cars, trackless street or trolley
4cars, and regional transit entities; to create presumptions; and to provide for related
5matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7Section 1. R.S. 9:2800.31 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
8§2800.31. Limitation of liability; operators of streetcars; trackless street or trolley
9cars; regional transit entity; presumption
10A. No operator of a streetcar or trackless street or trolley car shall be liable
11for any loss or damage to an operator of a motor vehicle unless the operator of the
12streetcar or trackless street or trolley car acted intentionally or negligently.
13B. There shall be a rebuttable presumption that a streetcar or trackless street
14or trolley car is not defective and that the regional transit entity, as defined by R.S.
1548:1501(G)(2), and the operator of the streetcar or trackless street or trolley car did
16not act negligently.
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HLS 26RS-1090  ORIGINAL
  HB NO. 375
  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 375 Original  2026 Regular Session  Freeman
Abstract: Limits liability of operators of streetcars or trackless street or trolley cars and
  creates rebuttable presumptions.
Proposed law limits liability of an operator of a street car or trackless street or trolley car for
any loss or damage to an operator of a motor vehicle unless the operator of the streetcar or
trackless street or trolley car acted intentionally or negligently.
Proposed law creates a rebuttable presumption that a streetcar or trackless street or trolley
car is not defective and that the regional transit entity and operator of the streetcar or
trackless street or trolley car did not act negligently.
(Adds R.S. 9:2800.31)
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.