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+type: "Bill"
+title: "UTILITIES: Provides relative to stormwater utility systems"
+description: "UTILITIES: Provides relative to stormwater utility systems"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 409"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 409 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rick Edmonds"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2023-03-30"
+last_action: "2023-06-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29cac7ba-70e0-4fa4-a522-9a4cada9d16f"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244332"
+source_hash: "954146f14e12523c9cd4caea5acc7a1d84738e17c24a51c848c0797b90cbfd2f"
+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 409 (2023) — UTILITIES: Provides relative to stormwater utility systems
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB409 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308602)
+2. **HB409 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332477)
+3. **HB409 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316720)
+4. **HB409 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320970)
+5. **House Floor Amendment, #2066, Edmonds, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317447)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1916, L&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323625)
+7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1918, L&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323632)
+8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2239, Foil, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326059)
+9. **HB409 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330949)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#746) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1080) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#303) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rick Edmonds — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
+- **2023-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 319. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 103, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
+- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-22** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-18** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-15** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-11** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-05-10** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/10/2023.
+- **2023-05-01** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-27** Reported favorably (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
+- **2023-03-30** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-30** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/29cac7ba-70e0-4fa4-a522-9a4cada9d16f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+