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+type: "Bill"
+title: "PUBLIC MEETINGS: Provides relative to open meetings of public bodies. (8/1/19)"
+description: "PUBLIC MEETINGS: Provides relative to open meetings of public bodies. (8/1/19)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 66"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 66 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Neil Riser"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-03-26"
+last_action: "2019-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fdd4fed9-f5fe-40ed-9fbf-6c9ebafe7da0"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235916"
+source_hash: "88307736cc0deda5fac5ec5d9895e2d1278139dac118252606fc061f97fe9d53"
+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 66 (2019) — PUBLIC MEETINGS: Provides relative to open meetings of public bodies. (8/1/19)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB66 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1118877)
+2. **House Committee Amendment, #2719, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134373)
+3. **SB66 Act 340** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144300)
+4. **SB66 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126917)
+5. **SB66 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139760)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCUR (#608) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#151) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#624) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Neil Riser — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-11** Effective date 8/1/2019.
+- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 340. `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** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2019-05-30** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
+- **2019-05-30** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
+- **2019-05-30** Rules suspended.
+- **2019-05-28** Received from the House with amendments.
+- **2019-05-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/19.
+- **2019-05-20** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2019-05-15** Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-04-30** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-29** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2019-04-29** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-04-25** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-04-24** Reported favorably.
+- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-26** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fdd4fed9-f5fe-40ed-9fbf-6c9ebafe7da0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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