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+type: "Bill"
+title: "DISTRICTS/INDUSTRIAL: Provides relative to the Sulphur Industrial Development District"
+description: "DISTRICTS/INDUSTRIAL: Provides relative to the Sulphur Industrial Development District"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 537"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 537 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Les Farnum"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-02-28"
+last_action: "2020-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b28d8bc5-48a0-4160-b73d-a6e06b7b399e"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238264"
+source_hash: "e1f700c9bdb955e05ef7f73c25aace045015bd20de40fc2eb4253959f1e81318"
+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 537 (2020) — DISTRICTS/INDUSTRIAL: Provides relative to the Sulphur Industrial Development District
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB537 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1163424)
+2. **HB537 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181927)
+3. **HB537 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170467)
+4. **HB537 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173110)
+5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1195, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170755)
+6. **HB537 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177382)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#124) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#492) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Les Farnum — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
+- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 194. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2020-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2020-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2020-05-27** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
+- **2020-05-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-05-07** Reported favorably (13-0).
+- **2020-05-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-31** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
+- **2020-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b28d8bc5-48a0-4160-b73d-a6e06b7b399e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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