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LA HB58
Bill
Status
3/13/2025
Primary Sponsor
Adrian Fisher
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AI Summary
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Appropriates $10,000 from the State General Fund for Fiscal Year 2024-2025 to pay a consent judgment against the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development in favor of MLA Logging, LLC
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The consent judgment was signed on June 12, 2023, in consolidated cases (Nos. 2015-178 and 2015-271) in the Fourth Judicial District, Morehouse Parish
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Payment covers principal, interest, court costs, and expert witness fees as awarded, but only after the judgment becomes final and required documentation is submitted to the state treasurer
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Interest on the judgment stops accruing on the effective date of the Act, at which point the judgment is deemed paid
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Becomes effective upon the governor's signature or upon expiration of the time for gubernatorial action
Legislative Description
Appropriates funds for payment of a consent judgment against the state in the suit entitled Direct General Ins. Co., of La. v Tonia Boggs et al. consolidated with William Tyler Walker et al. v. FCCI Ins. Co. et al.
APPROPRIATIONS/JUDGMENT
Last Action
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
4/14/2025