---
type: "Bill"
title: "UTILITIES: Provides relative to financing utility storm repairs and strengthening and stabilizing utilities. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)"
description: "UTILITIES: Provides relative to financing utility storm repairs and strengthening and stabilizing utilities. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 223"
citation: "Louisiana SB 223 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ronnie Johns"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38f82dda-7010-4c94-ae7f-36695438b349"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240621"
source_hash: "2cca1b3b670f799255a2a9796fd6c52df71765cd4e03224c879160f813ca0392"
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 223 (2021) — UTILITIES: Provides relative to financing utility storm repairs and strengthening and stabilizing utilities. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB223 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212320)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2638, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223093)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2670, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223197)
4. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1959, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223774)
5. **SB223 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235555)
6. **SB223 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213998)
7. **SB223 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215640)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #449, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212843)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #548, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213826)
10. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #641, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214507)
11. **SB223 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230671)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#726) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#663) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#72) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ronnie Johns — primary (person)
- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-14** Effective date 6/14/2021.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 293. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/4/2021. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2021-05-26** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/26/2021.
- **2021-05-13** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-12** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-11** Reported with amendments (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-04-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-04-20** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-04-19** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-04-14** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38f82dda-7010-4c94-ae7f-36695438b349`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).