How much notice is required to raise the rent in Louisiana?

Verified July 9, 2026 All Louisiana topics →

Pending legislation — not yet law. The rules on this page reflect current law only. The following bill would change it if enacted:

HB 292 (2026 Reg. Sess.) — Act No. 63 — Amends R.S. 9:3251(A) to extend the itemized-statement window: from August 1, 2026 the lessor may forward the itemization 'within one month after the date the tenancy terminates or within fifteen days after the date that is one month after the tenancy terminates' — effectively one month plus 15 days for the itemized statement. The one-month deadline to return the deposit itself is unchanged, as are R.S. 9:3252-3254. Carry-forward: after 2026-08-01, fold this into security_deposits (itemization_rules / return_deadline_conditions) and re-verify the consolidated statute page on legis.la.gov.Status: Enacted — signed by the Governor May 11, 2026 (House 87-3, Senate 35-0); effective August 1, 2026; not yet reflected on the legis.la.gov consolidated statute page as of the check date (checked 2026-07-09).

Louisiana has no statute requiring advance notice of a rent increase; for month-to-month tenancies the operative rule comes from the Civil Code's termination article, and it is startlingly short — ten calendar days before the end of the month.

Because either party may terminate a month-to-month lease on ten days' written notice (Civil Code article 2728), the Attorney General's guide states that the landlord may likewise change the terms — including the rent — on the same ten days' written notice before the end of the month, leaving the tenant to accept the new rent or treat the tenancy as ended. That is the shortest effective rent-increase window of any state: most states require 30 days or more. Rent under a fixed-term lease cannot be raised until renewal unless a valid escalation clause says otherwise, and Louisiana has no rent control anywhere — a 1977 state statute reserves the regulation of lessors' rights to state law alone, which is why no city or parish has ever imposed rent control.

Louisiana rent increase notice at a glance

Notice — month-to-month	No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary)
Varies by increase size	Not addressed by statute
Fixed-term leases	Rent is fixed for the term of a fixed-term lease and cannot be raised unilaterally mid-term absent a valid escalation clause; Louisiana courts void escalation clauses that leave the new rent indeterminate or at the lessor's whim (Arata v. La. Stadium & Exposition Dist. line, per the Louisiana legal-services desk manual). A tenant who stays a week past a fixed term with no renewal clause reconducts the lease month-to-month on the same terms (C.C. arts. 2721, 2723), after which the ten-day mechanism applies.
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	No statewide rent control exists. R.S. 9:3258 (1977) declares that the lessor's rights to dispose of property by lease 'for a valid consideration' — expressly including all rights under the Civil Code's lease title — 'shall not be altered, abridged or diminished except by state law,' subject to the reasonable exercise of the police power. That except-by-state-law clause is the accepted reason no Louisiana political subdivision (including New Orleans) has adopted rent control, though the statute never uses the words 'rent control' and has not been tested against an actual ordinance.
Local rent control preempted	Yes
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

Notes and caveats

notice_days_month_to_month null per derivation convention: the ten-day figure is C.C. art. 2728(2) termination timing ('In a month-to-month lease, ten calendar days before the end of that month'), applied to rent changes by the AG guide and the Loyola legal-services desk manual — not a rent-increase statute. Page copy MUST explain the derivation and flag how unusual 10 days is (shortest in the dataset; 30-day claims on landlord blogs are 'industry best practice' misrepresented as law — debunk). Note the 30-day figure in art. 2728(1) applies only to leases whose TERM exceeds one month, a common source of confusion. local_control_preempted true rests on R.S. 9:3258's except-by-state-law clause — a general lessor-rights statute with a police-power proviso, never litigated against a real ordinance because none exists; describe precisely, never as an express 'rent control ban.' Termination-notice FORM: art. 2729 requires written notice where the lease is written; cite if the form question comes up in page copy.

Statute citations

La. Civ. Code art. 2728 (2) Official source
La. Civ. Code art. 2727 Official source
La. Civ. Code art. 2680 (2) Official source
La. R.S. 9:3258 Official source
La. AG, 'A Guide to Louisiana Landlord & Tenant Laws' (ten-day change-of-terms rule for month-to-month leases, citing C.C. art. 2728) Terms & Automatic Renewal Clauses Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Louisiana Legislature site (legis.la.gov Law.aspx section pages) for La. R.S. 9:3251-3254 and 9:3258 and Civil Code arts. 2005, 2011, 2012, 2680-2683, 2693, 2695, 2727, and 2728, with every load-bearing section independently re-read on a second host (codes.findlaw.com; law.justia.com blocked fetches with 403). Enrolled text of 2026 Act No. 63 (HB 292) read in full from the legislature's document server, plus the bill-status page confirming signature 5/11/2026 and 8/1/2026 effective date. Cross-checked against the Louisiana Attorney General's official guide 'A Guide to Louisiana Landlord & Tenant Laws' (La. DOJ Consumer Protection Section), noting that the guide's deposit-penalty figure ($200/actual damages) is stale — superseded by Acts 2018, No. 416. 2026 regular session swept for other relevant bills; none found beyond Act 63.