---
type: "Bill"
title: "PROPERTY: Provides relative to the dedication of state lands to the Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge (BREC)"
description: "PROPERTY: Provides relative to the dedication of state lands to the Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge (BREC)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 646"
citation: "Louisiana HB 646 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward Ted James"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/572e0a71-f1bd-41cf-8199-2d4de837bf53"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240641"
source_hash: "44a6acbccfce242915b394ff04e5e2ea25b3c0492e5bbb6a092a6af87e1fa9f9"
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 646 (2021) — PROPERTY: Provides relative to the dedication of state lands to the Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge (BREC)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB646 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212350)
2. **HB646 Act 371** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235699)
3. **HB646 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216791)
4. **HB646 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229495)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#592) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#174) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Edward Ted James — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-16** Effective date: 06/16/2021.
- **2021-06-16** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 371. `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.
- **2021-05-05** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-04** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/03/2021.
- **2021-04-27** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-26** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/572e0a71-f1bd-41cf-8199-2d4de837bf53`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).