---
type: "Bill"
title: "SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Creates the Plank Road Economic Development District in East Baton Rouge Parish. (gov sig)"
description: "SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Creates the Plank Road Economic Development District in East Baton Rouge Parish. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 227"
citation: "Louisiana SB 227 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Regina Ashford Barrow"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d8cd10c-25b6-4cd7-90fe-7d21e9c90828"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240625"
source_hash: "8d90cdfb3c8e5426a7bde582b4459ba2fb28d3e9b0aaceb1ad64d657ae86d1d8"
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 227 (2021) — SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Creates the Plank Road Economic Development District in East Baton Rouge Parish. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB227 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212327)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3210, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226183)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3288, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226661)
4. **SB227 Act 221** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235358)
5. **SB227 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221748)
6. **SB227 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223385)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1574, L&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220756)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1626, L&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221061)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1927, Barrow, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223314)
10. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1778, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222243)
11. **SB227 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230642)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#664) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#835) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#319) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Regina Ashford Barrow — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date 6/11/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 221. `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.
- **2021-05-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/2021.
- **2021-05-25** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-24** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-20** Reported with amendments (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-13** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-12** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-05-11** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-10** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-06** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal 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/7d8cd10c-25b6-4cd7-90fe-7d21e9c90828`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).