---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHWAYS: Designates a portion of United States Highway 425 in the town of Mangham as the \"Marshall Waters, Jr. Memorial Highway\""
description: "HIGHWAYS: Designates a portion of United States Highway 425 in the town of Mangham as the \"Marshall Waters, Jr. Memorial Highway\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 97"
citation: "Louisiana HB 97 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Francis C. Thompson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-10"
last_action: "2021-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d38fa0fb-8cf1-4810-9548-1e1af7cee869"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239893"
source_hash: "729ce2faeecaaf40b074e64f18e34365b9e7328332071f6a31168d6f9f9e96bf"
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 97 (2021) — HIGHWAYS: Designates a portion of United States Highway 425 in the town of Mangham as the "Marshall Waters, Jr. Memorial Highway"

## Version chain

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

1. **HB97 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1203132)
2. **HB97 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230361)
3. **HB97 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213929)
4. **HB97 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226080)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#389) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#18) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#390) — **9–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Francis C. Thompson — primary (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-01** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 10. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-25** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-24** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-18** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-18** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-12** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-11** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-10** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-19** 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, 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-14** Reported favorably (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/d38fa0fb-8cf1-4810-9548-1e1af7cee869`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).