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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TRANSPORTATION/DEV DEPT: Authorizes the Department of Transportation and Development to use certain bidding processes. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+description: "TRANSPORTATION/DEV DEPT: Authorizes the Department of Transportation and Development to use certain bidding processes. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 216"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 216 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Valarie Hodges"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-04-04"
+last_action: "2025-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6430a0c-0de8-4adb-99f4-50207e282f50"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248739"
+source_hash: "b503dd6342d7f6643187fb5fcbbefef90eee1f0f09c572aa567f4d18eea98365"
+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 216 (2025) — TRANSPORTATION/DEV DEPT: Authorizes the Department of Transportation and Development to use certain bidding processes. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB216 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404696)
+2. **SB216 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425535)
+3. **SB216 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414974)
+4. **SB216 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416779)
+5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1740, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414735)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1741, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414738)
+7. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2014, Connick, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416516)
+8. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1812, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415232)
+9. **SB216 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421499)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#288) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#841) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Valarie Hodges — primary (person)
+- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-11** Effective date 6/11/2025.
+- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 337. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2025-06-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-08** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-06-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2025.
+- **2025-05-29** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2025-05-27** Reported favorably (8-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-21** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2025-05-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-05-19** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2025-05-14** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-14** 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`
+- **2025-04-04** 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/b6430a0c-0de8-4adb-99f4-50207e282f50`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+