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+type: "Bill"
+title: "WATERWAYS: Removes the designated deadline the board of the Amite River Basin Drainage and Water Conservation District has to promulgate regulations for watershed management within the district"
+description: "WATERWAYS: Removes the designated deadline the board of the Amite River Basin Drainage and Water Conservation District has to promulgate regulations for watershed management within the district"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 165"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 165 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kathy Edmonston"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-31"
+last_action: "2025-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/60b853dd-4199-4e29-85ec-970e0430ff75"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248075"
+source_hash: "5d5d672a31b25ea68dc445348b22edfe579c235157725787dfeb1e51645b7898"
+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 165 (2025) — WATERWAYS: Removes the designated deadline the board of the Amite River Basin Drainage and Water Conservation District has to promulgate regulations for watershed management within the district
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB165 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400238)
+2. **HB165 Act 247** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425555)
+3. **HB165 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414716)
+4. **HB165 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422875)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#692) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#548) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kathy Edmonston — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
+- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 247. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-08** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-04** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2025-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-05-21** Called from the calendar.
+- **2025-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2025.
+- **2025-05-20** Notice given.
+- **2025-05-20** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2025-05-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.
+- **2025-05-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-14** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/60b853dd-4199-4e29-85ec-970e0430ff75`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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