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+type: "Bill"
+title: "BOATS/BOATING: Provides for parishes to designate no-wake zones on state waterways. (8/1/25)"
+description: "BOATS/BOATING: Provides for parishes to designate no-wake zones on state waterways. (8/1/25)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 85"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 85 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["William \"Bill\" Wheat , Jr."]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-04-02"
+last_action: "2025-06-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/993edfab-d307-4c39-bdda-93a03a09650e"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248241"
+source_hash: "b6efb202a57448b24504834b95589b25f30e2d2a66bd7ca2afdb290f0ab706e1"
+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 85 (2025) — BOATS/BOATING: Provides for parishes to designate no-wake zones on state waterways. (8/1/25)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB85 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402094)
+2. **House Committee Amendment, #3194, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416334)
+3. **House Committee Amendment, #3240, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416515)
+4. **House Floor Amendment, #3573, Coates, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418470)
+5. **House Floor Amendment, #3927, LaCombe, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420620)
+6. **SB85 Act 415** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425976)
+7. **SB85 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410459)
+8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1102, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410236)
+9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #962, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409048)
+10. **SB85 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423736)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#160) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#827) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR (#842) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — primary (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-20** Effective date 8/1/2025.
+- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 415. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-10** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2025-06-10** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-09** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2025-06-03** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-06-03** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-06-03** Called from the calendar.
+- **2025-06-03** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2025-06-03** Called from the calendar.
+- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2025.
+- **2025-06-02** Notice given.
+- **2025-06-02** Read by title, amended, returned to the calendar.
+- **2025-05-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/2025.
+- **2025-05-22** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2025-05-20** Reported with amendments (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-07** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-06** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2025-05-06** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-05-05** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2025-04-30** 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 Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-02** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/993edfab-d307-4c39-bdda-93a03a09650e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+