---
type: "Bill"
title: "DISTRICTS/SPECIAL: Provides relative to the French Quarter Management District in the city of New Orleans"
description: "DISTRICTS/SPECIAL: Provides relative to the French Quarter Management District in the city of New Orleans"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 222"
citation: "Louisiana HB 222 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Royce Duplessis"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5828d80a-cd30-424e-a146-f1f7330004ff"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235950"
source_hash: "f2a60e02d576331784490335125658f33bb1bf8846ffbcdd23684e6dcfe28cf1"
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 222 (2019) — DISTRICTS/SPECIAL: Provides relative to the French Quarter Management District in the city of New Orleans

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB222 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1119320)
2. **HB222 Act 153** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143686)
3. **HB222 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130386)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2175, L&M, Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136522)
5. **HB222 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141431)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#572) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#800) — **88–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#346) — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Royce Duplessis — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 153. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-02** Read by title, roll called, yeas 88, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2019-05-31** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/02/19.
- **2019-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-05-29** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-27** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/19.
- **2019-05-06** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-02** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5828d80a-cd30-424e-a146-f1f7330004ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).