---
type: "Bill"
title: "TAX/LOCAL: Provides relative to certain tax increment financing districts. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE RV See Note)"
description: "TAX/LOCAL: Provides relative to certain tax increment financing districts. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 237"
citation: "Louisiana SB 237 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Yvonne Colomb"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-04-17"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ed1c8845-eba2-4a8c-a7c8-c2fdf2924a33"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236654"
source_hash: "e3518a9c59c6870640dfc3827266922f343e4a7e6ee590e2be2e706a5af4a6e6"
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 237 (2019) — TAX/LOCAL: Provides relative to certain tax increment financing districts. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB237 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125482)
2. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2060, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135156)
3. **SB237 Act 203** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143910)
4. **SB237 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127670)
5. **SB237 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133554)
6. **SB237 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132069)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1025, L&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127412)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1654, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131935)
9. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1686, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132348)
10. **SB237 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140571)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#681) — **65–20** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#673) — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#312) — **31–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Yvonne Colomb — primary (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — 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. 203. `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** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 34 yeas and 1 nays.
- **2019-05-30** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2019-05-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 65, nays 20. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/19.
- **2019-05-21** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-20** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-16** Reported favorably (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-15** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-14** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-05-13** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 1 nays; ordered re- reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-08** Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered reengrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-07** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-04-30** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2019-04-29** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-04-22** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs.
- **2019-04-22** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2019-04-17** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ed1c8845-eba2-4a8c-a7c8-c2fdf2924a33`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).