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+type: "Bill"
+title: "DISTRICTS/ECONOMIC DEVEL: Provides relative to the Lower Ninth Ward Economic Development District in Orleans Parish"
+description: "DISTRICTS/ECONOMIC DEVEL: Provides relative to the Lower Ninth Ward Economic Development District in Orleans Parish"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 553"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 553 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jimmy Harris"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-03-29"
+last_action: "2019-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac93b4d1-4e17-4f48-acb8-8555241b8468"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236403"
+source_hash: "41dfc7bdef0ea5e158382c3758a1286e21f69def6ed0a4e0756000b28288eff7"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
+---
+
+# Louisiana HB 553 (2019) — DISTRICTS/ECONOMIC DEVEL: Provides relative to the Lower Ninth Ward Economic Development District in Orleans Parish
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB553 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122242)
+2. **HB553 Act 322** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144252)
+3. **HB553 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134973)
+4. **HB553 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136906)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2631, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133769)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #2795, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134930)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #3164, Harris, J., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136785)
+8. **HB553 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141427)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#507) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#834) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jimmy Harris — primary (person)
+- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
+- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 322. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2019-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-06-02** Rules suspended.
+- **2019-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-05-30** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-05-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-23** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2019-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/19.
+- **2019-05-20** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-05-16** Reported with amendments (14-0).
+- **2019-04-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-17** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
+- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ac93b4d1-4e17-4f48-acb8-8555241b8468`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+