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+type: "Bill"
+title: "PORTS/HARBORS/TERMINALS: Provides relative to the Louisiana International Deep Water Gulf Transfer Terminal Authority. (gov sig) (Item #50)"
+description: "PORTS/HARBORS/TERMINALS: Provides relative to the Louisiana International Deep Water Gulf Transfer Terminal Authority. (gov sig) (Item #50)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020s2"
+identifier: "SB 7"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 7 (2020s2)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Sharon Hewitt"]
+version_count: 15
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-09-24"
+last_action: "2020-11-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f96da529-0f49-4f12-9c98-afd63a1f2662"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239430"
+source_hash: "a231c78b7767892e947d681ecc8ada91583f140d94ffefd069e89a5a4ce29e8f"
+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 7 (2020s2) — PORTS/HARBORS/TERMINALS: Provides relative to the Louisiana International Deep Water Gulf Transfer Terminal Authority. (gov sig) (Item #50)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB7 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1188868)
+2. **House Committee Amendment, #604, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1193025)
+3. **House Committee Amendment, #631, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1193138)
+4. **House Floor Amendment, #648, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1193363)
+5. **House Floor Amendment, #675, Garofalo, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1193464)
+6. **House Floor Amendment, #694, Ivey, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1193657)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #696, Garofalo, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1193700)
+8. **SB7 Act 51** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1195059)
+9. **SB7 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191352)
+10. **SB7 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191968)
+11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #289, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191009)
+12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #339, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191338)
+13. **Senate Floor Amendment, #462, Hewitt, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191902)
+14. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #389, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191591)
+15. **SB7 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1194119)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCUR (#176) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#57) — **31–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#221) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Sharon Hewitt — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-11-05** Effective date 11/5/2020.
+- **2020-11-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 51. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-10-23** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-10-23** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-10-22** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-10-22** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2020-10-21** Received from the House with amendments.
+- **2020-10-21** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2020-10-21** Called from the calendar.
+- **2020-10-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 10/21/20.
+- **2020-10-20** Notice given.
+- **2020-10-20** Read by title, amended, returned to the calendar.
+- **2020-10-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 10/20/20.
+- **2020-10-19** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-10-19** Rules suspended.
+- **2020-10-19** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2020-10-19** Reported with amendments (15-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2020-10-13** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-10-12** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2020-10-07** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2020-09-28** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-09-24** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f96da529-0f49-4f12-9c98-afd63a1f2662`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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