---
type: "Bill"
title: "HORSE RACING: Provides for live racing dates and minimum number of races per day to be assigned by the Louisiana State Racing Commission. (7/1/21)"
description: "HORSE RACING: Provides for live racing dates and minimum number of races per day to be assigned by the Louisiana State Racing Commission. (7/1/21)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 204"
citation: "Louisiana SB 204 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick Page Cortez"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b4b0146-8541-4cea-bbfe-d26d6b6add1d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240562"
source_hash: "a5a0bf9b9bb2bdefca0f3c7ea3c8085b0c8b415fad311ca6e598041755df33ce"
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 SB 204 (2021) — HORSE RACING: Provides for live racing dates and minimum number of races per day to be assigned by the Louisiana State Racing Commission. (7/1/21)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB204 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212088)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3479, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228112)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3515, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228560)
4. **SB204 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235892)
5. **SB204 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220408)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1500, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220224)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1530, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220352)
8. **SB204 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233586)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1030) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#989) — **32–3** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#359) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Patrick Page Cortez — primary (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-21** Effective date: See Act.
- **2021-06-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 436. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-10** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/11/2021. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-10** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-09** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-08** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 32 yeas and 3 nays.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-06-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/07/2021.
- **2021-06-01** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-26** Reported with amendments (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-13** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-12** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-05-12** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-12** Called from the Calendar.
- **2021-05-10** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2021-05-05** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-04** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b4b0146-8541-4cea-bbfe-d26d6b6add1d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).