---
type: "Bill"
title: "TAX/HOTEL OCCUPANCY: Authorizes the governing authority of the city of Crowley to levy a hotel occupancy tax"
description: "TAX/HOTEL OCCUPANCY: Authorizes the governing authority of the city of Crowley to levy a hotel occupancy tax"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 463"
citation: "Louisiana HB 463 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Stefanski"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-27"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0fdcd3fe-ad7b-4f41-9c2c-6d5f04dfd8c3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238179"
source_hash: "9c49ba812f0f602289337d53165fcfd00e7bd65a2e5b83bd1d3ae3d162227a08"
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 463 (2020) — TAX/HOTEL OCCUPANCY: Authorizes the governing authority of the city of Crowley to levy a hotel occupancy tax

## Version chain

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

1. **HB463 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1162817)
2. **HB463 Act 270** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182347)
3. **HB463 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170576)
4. **HB463 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173319)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1194, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170754)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2202, Hensgens, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177008)
7. **HB463 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178576)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#696) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#121) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#562) — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- John Stefanski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 06/11/2020.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 270. `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.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 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, amended, 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/0fdcd3fe-ad7b-4f41-9c2c-6d5f04dfd8c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).