---
type: "Bill"
title: "LOCAL AGENCIES: Provides relative to the bonding authority of the Greater Lafourche Port Commission. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
description: "LOCAL AGENCIES: Provides relative to the bonding authority of the Greater Lafourche Port Commission. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 188"
citation: "Louisiana SB 188 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Norby Chabert"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/acc6bcd8-363b-4917-84aa-b863b3b7a492"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236320"
source_hash: "b7dea5e44637ccee59cadd4bf53db93a0eaaafcf2ced2d920d815a19c9419361"
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 188 (2019) — LOCAL AGENCIES: Provides relative to the bonding authority of the Greater Lafourche Port Commission. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB188 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122036)
2. **SB188 Act 278** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144039)
3. **SB188 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125953)
4. **SB188 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127247)
5. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #941, Chabert, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126842)
6. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #847, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126195)
7. **SB188 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141600)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#126) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#819) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Norby Chabert — primary (person)
- Jerry "Truck" Gisclair — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date 6/11/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 278. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-04** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-30** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/19.
- **2019-05-30** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-28** Reported favorably (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-04-29** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-25** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-04-24** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-04-23** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-04-22** Reported favorably.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/acc6bcd8-363b-4917-84aa-b863b3b7a492`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).