---
type: "Bill"
title: "DISTRICTS/DRAINAGE: Provides relative to gravity drainage districts in Calcasieu Parish"
description: "DISTRICTS/DRAINAGE: Provides relative to gravity drainage districts in Calcasieu Parish"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 375"
citation: "Louisiana HB 375 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Les Farnum"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-27"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fb1335f8-48fd-4e0a-9921-5b1242e835c6"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238001"
source_hash: "767fdb22b70ae57d756e868d32a67f078b73f4ddd65dc8ef83b8f87727ee3190"
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 375 (2020) — DISTRICTS/DRAINAGE: Provides relative to gravity drainage districts in Calcasieu Parish

## Version chain

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

1. **HB375 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1161940)
2. **HB375 Act 262** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182337)
3. **HB375 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170397)
4. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2104, Johns, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176634)
5. **HB375 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178555)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#690) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#166) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#483) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Les Farnum — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 262. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2020-05-29** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-05-28** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-27** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2020-05-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-31** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
- **2020-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fb1335f8-48fd-4e0a-9921-5b1242e835c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).