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+type: "Bill"
+title: "ECONOMIC DEVELOP DEPT: Create the office of port development within the Department of Economic Development and create a port development advisory committee. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
+description: "ECONOMIC DEVELOP DEPT: Create the office of port development within the Department of Economic Development and create a port development advisory committee. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 214"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 214 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Patrick McMath"]
+version_count: 14
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2023-03-31"
+last_action: "2023-06-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b7f58795-6cea-409a-80da-34b20c175229"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244638"
+source_hash: "57870c459bd9bbdad06739067983d2987f5dcddc65dc6fec094bf85920a3b83e"
+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 214 (2023) — ECONOMIC DEVELOP DEPT: Create the office of port development within the Department of Economic Development and create a port development advisory committee. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB214 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1310040)
+2. **House Committee Amendment, #3281, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324173)
+3. **House Committee Amendment, #3667, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326641)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #3760, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327385)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #3924, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328731)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #3978, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329092)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #4091, Wright, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329936)
+8. **SB214 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1333333)
+9. **SB214 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316274)
+10. **SB214 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320530)
+11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #886, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315821)
+12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #960, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316222)
+13. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1332, McMath, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318980)
+14. **SB214 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331274)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#261) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1013) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
+- CO-AUTHORS (#262) — **10–0** (fail) · upper
+- CONCUR (#944) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Patrick McMath — primary (person)
+- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
+- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
+- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-28** Effective date: See Act.
+- **2023-06-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 459. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2023-06-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2023-06-07** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2023-06-06** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-06-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-06-05** Called from the calendar.
+- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended.
+- **2023-06-05** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2023-06-02** Reported with amendments (17-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-31** Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
+- **2023-05-30** Reported with amendments (9-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-10** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2023-05-09** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-05-02** Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-02** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
+- **2023-04-27** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
+- **2023-04-26** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International 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/b7f58795-6cea-409a-80da-34b20c175229`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+