---
type: "Bill"
title: "TAX/HOTEL OCCUPANCY: Authorizes the governing authority of St. Bernard Parish to levy a hotel occupancy tax (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)"
description: "TAX/HOTEL OCCUPANCY: Authorizes the governing authority of St. Bernard Parish to levy a hotel occupancy tax (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 566"
citation: "Louisiana HB 566 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ray Garofalo"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e3c9e82-7d76-4a30-9d03-ec7bc1e11a5b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236418"
source_hash: "1cfaef2cc1461397973fbbffafb980bc95af0ee662be60f6685463030afe20ad"
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 566 (2019) — TAX/HOTEL OCCUPANCY: Authorizes the governing authority of St. Bernard Parish to levy a hotel occupancy tax (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB566 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122312)
2. **HB566 Act 76** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142762)
3. **HB566 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127622)
4. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1104, Pierre, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127858)
5. **HB566 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139703)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#581) — **35–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#201) — **88–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ray Garofalo — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-03** Effective date: 07/01/2019.
- **2019-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 76. `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.
- **2019-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 1 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 favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-08** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-07** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 8. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/19.
- **2019-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-25** Reported favorably (15-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `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/5e3c9e82-7d76-4a30-9d03-ec7bc1e11a5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).