---
type: "Bill"
title: "DISTRICTS/REDEVELOPMENT: Authorizes the East Baton Rouge Redevelopment Authority to use a trade name"
description: "DISTRICTS/REDEVELOPMENT: Authorizes the East Baton Rouge Redevelopment Authority to use a trade name"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 647"
citation: "Louisiana HB 647 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Selders"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-28"
last_action: "2020-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0161ee8a-8159-48fe-8aa4-85bf7940711a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238391"
source_hash: "e8e04959080536ecd211f391774907173e3d83c5d51d8e0218e1c5d20cf200b6"
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 647 (2020) — DISTRICTS/REDEVELOPMENT: Authorizes the East Baton Rouge Redevelopment Authority to use a trade name

## Version chain

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

1. **HB647 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1163928)
2. **HB647 Act 291** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182368)
3. **HB647 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172330)
4. **HB647 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177560)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#323) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#500) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Larry Selders — primary (person)
- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-12** Effective date: 06/12/2020.
- **2020-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 291. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-28** 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.
- **2020-05-25** 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`
- **2020-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/20.
- **2020-05-18** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-15** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0161ee8a-8159-48fe-8aa4-85bf7940711a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).