---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHWAYS: Designates a portion of Louisiana Highway 371 in Webster Parish as the \"John David Crow Memorial Highway\""
description: "HIGHWAYS: Designates a portion of Louisiana Highway 371 in Webster Parish as the \"John David Crow Memorial Highway\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 71"
citation: "Louisiana HB 71 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wayne McMahen"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-14"
last_action: "2022-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e3e4f31-567a-4494-9d83-f02c10098c40"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241596"
source_hash: "1f1afdac3592b092a29ad8ca087c5061fd128a3fbecc93503c6f3809d6e119a7"
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 71 (2022) — HIGHWAYS: Designates a portion of Louisiana Highway 371 in Webster Parish as the "John David Crow Memorial Highway"

## Version chain

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

1. **HB71 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1247446)
2. **HB71 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280912)
3. **HB71 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259713)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1129, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1258284)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1292, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259643)
6. **HB71 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278482)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#36) — **85–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#539) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wayne McMahen — primary (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-17** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 25. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-11** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-09** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-04** Reported favorably.
- **2022-03-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-22** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-03-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 85, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-03-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/22/2022.
- **2022-03-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-16** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-18** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/18/2022.
- **2022-02-14** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-14** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0e3e4f31-567a-4494-9d83-f02c10098c40`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).