---
type: "Bill"
title: "SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Provides relative to board appointments and powers and duties of the Harbor Center District. (gov sig)"
description: "SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Provides relative to board appointments and powers and duties of the Harbor Center District. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 27"
citation: "Louisiana SB 27 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sharon Hewitt"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-30"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/550a0b56-dd38-43ae-b3ef-a0ebd19dd386"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237452"
source_hash: "fc0eebb8ac0ef786a7d4fdb0a45d1f22d206fb70fa4b0288e6a090fce9e369cb"
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 27 (2020) — SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Provides relative to board appointments and powers and duties of the Harbor Center District. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB27 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1152591)
2. **SB27 Act 207** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181979)
3. **SB27 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173541)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1568, L&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173359)
5. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1772, Peacock, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174423)
6. **SB27 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177617)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#576) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#260) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sharon Hewitt — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date 6/11/2020.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 207. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/2/2020. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/20.
- **2020-05-28** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-28** Rules suspended.
- **2020-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-05-28** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-20** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2020-05-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-19** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-18** Reported with amendments.
- **2020-03-09** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-30** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/550a0b56-dd38-43ae-b3ef-a0ebd19dd386`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).