---
type: "Bill"
title: "GOVERNOR: Creates the Rural Water Infrastructure Committee within the governor's office. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "GOVERNOR: Creates the Rural Water Infrastructure Committee within the governor's office. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 170"
citation: "Louisiana SB 170 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Francis C. Thompson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f639024-4828-4269-a520-b2240fe78698"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236161"
source_hash: "469bd99377e3b140f66c43990fd8abe2c3114d6e2279d05e459c4adfe8bbe1c6"
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 170 (2019) — GOVERNOR: Creates the Rural Water Infrastructure Committee within the governor's office. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB170 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121003)
2. **SB170 Act 126** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143723)
3. **SB170 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124841)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #609, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124358)
5. **SB170 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140486)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#91) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#92) — **23–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#774) — **90–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Francis C. Thompson — primary (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Conrad Appel — cosponsor (person)
- Dale Erdey — cosponsor (person)
- Danny Martiny — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Long — cosponsor (person)
- J.P. Morrell — cosponsor (person)
- James R. Fannin — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- John Alario — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Walsworth — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Gatti — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Yvonne Colomb — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-06** Effective date 6/6/2019.
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 126. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-04** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-02** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-01** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-31** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2019-05-31** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/31/19.
- **2019-05-28** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-22** Reported favorably (14-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-04-23** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-22** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-04-22** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-04-17** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-04-16** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f639024-4828-4269-a520-b2240fe78698`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).