---
type: "Bill"
title: "TOURISM/COMMISSION: Provides relative to the board of directors of the Livingston Parish Convention and Visitors' Bureau"
description: "TOURISM/COMMISSION: Provides relative to the board of directors of the Livingston Parish Convention and Visitors' Bureau"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 53"
citation: "Louisiana HB 53 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buddy Mincey"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-02"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ed95ed1f-3931-428b-8db8-fd4debb343a5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239839"
source_hash: "a34e4f004aa2a279a81881e1d0b780c32c86b7214a07c19f643e247a50888a46"
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 53 (2021) — TOURISM/COMMISSION: Provides relative to the board of directors of the Livingston Parish Convention and Visitors' Bureau

## Version chain

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

1. **HB53 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1201829)
2. **HB53 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235054)
3. **HB53 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218890)
4. **HB53 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229446)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#249) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#583) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Buddy Mincey — primary (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 146. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-27** 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`
- **2021-05-19** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-18** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-17** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2021.
- **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`
- **2021-03-05** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/5/2021.
- **2021-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ed95ed1f-3931-428b-8db8-fd4debb343a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).