---
type: "Bill"
title: "MUNICIPAL/ANNEXATION: Provides relative to annexations in Ascension Parish"
description: "MUNICIPAL/ANNEXATION: Provides relative to annexations in Ascension Parish"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 563"
citation: "Louisiana HB 563 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony Bacala"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-03"
last_action: "2022-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc3972a2-79cf-4059-9193-6377bf1a173d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242351"
source_hash: "109dbf07a5a3117dfef25d35ede7d61296b81353e21a1c879ac36bedc048c8b9"
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 563 (2022) — MUNICIPAL/ANNEXATION: Provides relative to annexations in Ascension Parish

## Version chain

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

1. **HB563 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1256670)
2. **HB563 Act 223** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286795)
3. **HB563 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1271491)
4. **HB563 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1282371)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#565) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#769) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tony Bacala — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-31** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-31** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 223. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-26** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-23** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-23** 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`
- **2022-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-15** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-12** Reported favorably.
- **2022-05-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-03** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-05-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/02/2022.
- **2022-04-21** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-20** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **2022-04-05** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-04** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
- **2022-03-14** Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date. `filing`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-03-03** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bc3972a2-79cf-4059-9193-6377bf1a173d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).