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+type: "Bill"
+title: "WATER/SEWER OPERATORS: Provides relative to receivership of water or wastewater companies (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+description: "WATER/SEWER OPERATORS: Provides relative to receivership of water or wastewater companies (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 257"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 257 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Vincent J. St. Blanc , III"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-04-01"
+last_action: "2025-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d21fc3ee-043e-4b60-98ea-a9b3acb107ed"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248188"
+source_hash: "bbec1716eb4c58208b997067dac9ee10218d3e5f0510ffb93ac9a2fa543623e7"
+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 257 (2025) — WATER/SEWER OPERATORS: Provides relative to receivership of water or wastewater companies (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB257 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1401325)
+2. **HB257 Act 257** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425566)
+3. **HB257 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414286)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #2682, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413666)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2720, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414030)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #2752, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414258)
+7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2639, Allain, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420570)
+8. **HB257 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423497)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#614) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#442) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1024) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — 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. 257. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-09** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2025-06-09** Called from the calendar.
+- **2025-06-04** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/09/2025.
+- **2025-06-04** Notice given.
+- **2025-06-04** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2025-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/2025.
+- **2025-06-03** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-06-02** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2025-05-29** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2025-05-19** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-05-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2025.
+- **2025-05-14** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-13** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d21fc3ee-043e-4b60-98ea-a9b3acb107ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+