--- type: "Bill" title: "HIGHWAYS: Redesignates a portion of Louisiana Highway 3094 in Shreveport as the \"Rev. Dr. Elbert W. 'Eddie' Giles Memorial Highway\"" description: "HIGHWAYS: Redesignates a portion of Louisiana Highway 3094 in Shreveport as the \"Rev. Dr. Elbert W. 'Eddie' Giles Memorial Highway\"" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2021" identifier: "HB 96" citation: "Louisiana HB 96 (2021)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Samuel Jenkins"] version_count: 8 action_count: 20 vote_count: 2 first_action: "2021-03-10" last_action: "2021-06-04" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69274676-85ae-4b6c-b6c4-b163b5f0aed8" source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239892" source_hash: "ab98658999b63bb43921855af95b4aacd1789975d4b5d438cb700f86db4fff16" 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 96 (2021) — HIGHWAYS: Redesignates a portion of Louisiana Highway 3094 in Shreveport as the "Rev. Dr. Elbert W. 'Eddie' Giles Memorial Highway" ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB96 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1203131) 2. **HB96 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231937) 3. **HB96 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214165) 4. **HB96 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215174) 5. **House Committee Amendment, #1139, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213623) 6. **House Committee Amendment, #1184, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213952) 7. **House Floor Amendment, #1331, Jenkins, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215017) 8. **HB96 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228892) ## Votes - FINAL PASSAGE (#17) — **96–0** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#518) — **36–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Samuel Jenkins — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2021-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2021. - **2021-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 63. `executive-signature` - **2021-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt` - **2021-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/28/2021. - **2021-05-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. - **2021-05-26** Received from the Senate without amendments. - **2021-05-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2021-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. - **2021-05-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **2021-05-20** 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 96, 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` - **2021-03-12** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/12/2021. - **2021-03-10** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee` - **2021-03-10** Prefiled. `filing` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/69274676-85ae-4b6c-b6c4-b163b5f0aed8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).