---
type: "Bill"
title: "PLANNING/ZONING-LOCAL: Provides relative to the Shreveport Metropolitan Planning Commission"
description: "PLANNING/ZONING-LOCAL: Provides relative to the Shreveport Metropolitan Planning Commission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 697"
citation: "Louisiana HB 697 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Danny McCormick"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-28"
last_action: "2020-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b9e4aaf6-1956-488a-8ced-61ef40907f9c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238479"
source_hash: "baa81b22e45d1568c1baa413227aed698586422e254389865f21f90a6f0174cb"
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 697 (2020) — PLANNING/ZONING-LOCAL: Provides relative to the Shreveport Metropolitan Planning Commission

## Version chain

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

1. **HB697 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1164266)
2. **HB697 Act 294** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182371)
3. **HB697 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170474)
4. **HB697 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173295)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1730, McCormick, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172622)
6. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1187, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170717)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2017, L&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176197)
8. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2151, Milligan, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176808)
9. **HB697 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178639)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#501) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 697 BY MCCORMICK (#167) — **63–31** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#722) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Danny McCormick — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-12** Effective date: 01/01/2022.
- **2020-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 294. `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 with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-26** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs.
- **2020-05-26** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2020-05-25** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.
- **2020-05-25** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **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 63, nays 31. 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 (9-5-1).
- **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/b9e4aaf6-1956-488a-8ced-61ef40907f9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).