---
type: "Bill"
title: "SEWERAGE/N O WATER BD: Provides relative to the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans"
description: "SEWERAGE/N O WATER BD: Provides relative to the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 679"
citation: "Louisiana HB 679 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephanie Hilferty"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-21"
last_action: "2021-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a8970a7c-c28b-402a-8a5c-2173173ccdbb"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240802"
source_hash: "d6a547664e8427db5c81f0daacea44658e1e2f4b2a56e77c5609625e9d69c39d"
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 679 (2021) — SEWERAGE/N O WATER BD: Provides relative to the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans

## Version chain

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

1. **HB679 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215991)
2. **HB679 Act 360** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235688)
3. **HB679 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224541)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2914, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224533)
5. **HB679 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232953)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#595) — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#908) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stephanie Hilferty — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-15** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 360. `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.
- **2021-06-07** 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.
- **2021-05-24** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-20** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2021.
- **2021-05-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-13** Reported with amendments (10-0).
- **2021-04-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a8970a7c-c28b-402a-8a5c-2173173ccdbb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).