---
type: "Bill"
title: "TAX/HOTEL OCCUPANCY: Authorizes the governing authority of the city of New Orleans to levy a tax on short term rentals of overnight lodging (EN +$10,500,000 LF RV See Note)"
description: "TAX/HOTEL OCCUPANCY: Authorizes the governing authority of the city of New Orleans to levy a tax on short term rentals of overnight lodging (EN +$10,500,000 LF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 43"
citation: "Louisiana HB 43 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jimmy Harris"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-06"
last_action: "2019-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83f395c5-0f78-4b31-90a5-b8837b743947"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235673"
source_hash: "22ea710c8997c3f2208e461b7b49cdceeca88774dc02a198aa69a3c6af9ad063"
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 43 (2019) — TAX/HOTEL OCCUPANCY: Authorizes the governing authority of the city of New Orleans to levy a tax on short term rentals of overnight lodging (EN +$10,500,000 LF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB43 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1114262)
2. **HB43 Act 169** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143877)
3. **HB43 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130552)
4. **HB43 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132802)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1810, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129115)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2038, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130537)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2364, Abramson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132203)
8. **HB43 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139675)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#234) — **70–18** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#594) — **31–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jimmy Harris — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-07** Effective date: 07/01/2019.
- **2019-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 169. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-30** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-28** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-27** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-21** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.
- **2019-05-20** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-09** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 70, nays 18. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/19.
- **2019-05-06** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2019-05-06** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-02** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-08** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/8/2019.
- **2019-03-06** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-06** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/83f395c5-0f78-4b31-90a5-b8837b743947`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).