---
type: "Bill"
title: "DISTRICTS/CRIME PREVENT: Creates the Plantation Trace Crime Prevention and Improvement District in East Baton Rouge Parish"
description: "DISTRICTS/CRIME PREVENT: Creates the Plantation Trace Crime Prevention and Improvement District in East Baton Rouge Parish"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 257"
citation: "Louisiana HB 257 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Reich Freiberg"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/acd5b5ac-786d-4645-8252-2aaea38f07b8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240112"
source_hash: "3c7d6aa2b3b972cf6536d92d3efe86abb4229f6f4d4bd4a9180f58d370c33673"
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 257 (2021) — DISTRICTS/CRIME PREVENT: Creates the Plantation Trace Crime Prevention and Improvement District in East Baton Rouge Parish

## Version chain

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

1. **HB257 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1208167)
2. **HB257 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235454)
3. **HB257 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218949)
4. **HB257 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222787)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2065, Freiberg, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219767)
6. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1367, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219319)
7. **HB257 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232835)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#310) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#810) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barbara Reich Freiberg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-14** Effective date: 06/14/2021.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 264. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-06** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-06-03** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-11** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-10** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/10/2021.
- **2021-05-03** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-29** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/acd5b5ac-786d-4645-8252-2aaea38f07b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).