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+type: "Bill"
+title: "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Provides for the Small Business Protection Act. (2/1/20)"
+description: "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Provides for the Small Business Protection Act. (2/1/20)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 241"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 241 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Neil Riser"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-05-02"
+last_action: "2019-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/789c2c31-41c2-45f1-99fd-664dc0fdf0a7"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236843"
+source_hash: "82f32585697f92be5f220d6c2c2fd3dc9393bd537c7b742ebd078d672b7061e3"
+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 SB 241 (2019) — ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Provides for the Small Business Protection Act. (2/1/20)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB241 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129975)
+2. **SB241 Act 204** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143911)
+3. **SB241 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131449)
+4. **SB241 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132227)
+5. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1542, Riser, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130996)
+6. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1652, Riser, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131894)
+7. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1618, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131700)
+8. **SB241 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139984)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#271) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#730) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Neil Riser — primary (person)
+- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-11** Effective date 2/1/2020.
+- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 204. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-04** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-02** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-05-31** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-05-30** Received from the House without amendments.
+- **2019-05-30** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/30/19.
+- **2019-05-22** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2019-05-20** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-05-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-08** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2019-05-07** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-05-06** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-05-02** Substitute for Senate Bill No. 208. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/789c2c31-41c2-45f1-99fd-664dc0fdf0a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+