---
type: "Bill"
title: "HORSE RACING: Provides relative to horse racing including historical horse racing. (gov sig) (EG NO IMPACT SD RV See Note)"
description: "HORSE RACING: Provides relative to horse racing including historical horse racing. (gov sig) (EG NO IMPACT SD RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 209"
citation: "Louisiana SB 209 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gary L. Smith, Jr."]
version_count: 8
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86e30cb3-99d4-4558-b66f-fda70622b073"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240585"
source_hash: "939ba48880c5a56f788c24089d4d350a9637fe93e83616ea7e2b6af0772cc387"
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 209 (2021) — HORSE RACING: Provides relative to horse racing including historical horse racing. (gov sig) (EG NO IMPACT SD RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB209 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212196)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3492, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228265)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3532, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228770)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #3918, Stefanski, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232537)
5. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2755, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228811)
6. **SB209 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235893)
7. **SB209 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220358)
8. **SB209 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233497)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1035) — **85–11** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#990) — **32–3** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#287) — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- CRIMINAL JUSTICE (#861) — **19–65** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-21** Effective date 6/21/2021.
- **2021-06-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 437. `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, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 85, nays 11. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-06-07** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-06-07** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **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 with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-26** Reported with amendments (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-06** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-05-06** Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-05** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-04** Reported favorably.
- **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/86e30cb3-99d4-4558-b66f-fda70622b073`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).