---
type: "Bill"
title: "TAX/SALES-USE, LOCAL: Provides relative to the levy of sales and use taxes in the city of New Orleans (EN +$12,000,000 LF RV See Note)"
description: "TAX/SALES-USE, LOCAL: Provides relative to the levy of sales and use taxes in the city of New Orleans (EN +$12,000,000 LF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 522"
citation: "Louisiana HB 522 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Neil Abramson"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2397e695-a990-42ea-8b27-d375d3489547"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236372"
source_hash: "e3e7e83720b713175524dc8b866036a61a2cc01c21e8f57219616b565d44aeb7"
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 522 (2019) — TAX/SALES-USE, LOCAL: Provides relative to the levy of sales and use taxes in the city of New Orleans (EN +$12,000,000 LF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB522 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122182)
2. **HB522 Act 170** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143878)
3. **HB522 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126136)
4. **HB522 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132790)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1245, W&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125638)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1311, W&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125981)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2148, Abramson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130995)
8. **HB522 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141141)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#723) — **31–2** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#233) — **73–19** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Neil Abramson — 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. 170. `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** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-01** Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-21** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-20** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal 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 73, nays 19. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-08** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/19.
- **2019-05-06** Notice given.
- **2019-04-25** Notice given.
- **2019-04-25** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/25/19.
- **2019-04-23** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-22** Reported with amendments (18-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2397e695-a990-42ea-8b27-d375d3489547`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).