---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHWAYS: Redesignates a portion of certain Louisiana highways and the Ramos Bridge on United States Highway 90"
description: "HIGHWAYS: Redesignates a portion of certain Louisiana highways and the Ramos Bridge on United States Highway 90"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 224"
citation: "Louisiana HB 224 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marcus Bryant"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-25"
last_action: "2021-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a520402-b2f2-4dfc-b43f-e5fbcff35128"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240066"
source_hash: "a0fee231def79587bdd841a2a22a39c1d8b50b5e81dad6a09a07be4dbd5e511d"
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 224 (2021) — HIGHWAYS: Redesignates a portion of certain Louisiana highways and the Ramos Bridge on United States Highway 90

## Version chain

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

1. **HB224 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1206996)
2. **HB224 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235708)
3. **HB224 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214207)
4. **HB224 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215161)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1160, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213800)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1185, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213951)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1245, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214432)
8. **HB224 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231469)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#734) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#26) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Marcus Bryant — primary (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-16** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-16** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 375. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/3/2021.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-02** Called from the Calendar.
- **2021-05-20** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2021-05-12** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-11** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-10** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-20** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-19** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/19/2021.
- **2021-04-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-14** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
- **2021-03-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3a520402-b2f2-4dfc-b43f-e5fbcff35128`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).