---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS: Provides relative to annual filing and reporting requirements of charitable organizations. (gov sig)"
description: "CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS: Provides relative to annual filing and reporting requirements of charitable organizations. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 179"
citation: "Louisiana SB 179 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Reese"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-03-03"
last_action: "2022-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fb1f59aa-4a20-4db8-a0ba-47d27b387f72"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242120"
source_hash: "06806aaa29c125414ba2892cb19d624db50c1b1d1ce15b962cd25b0323373969"
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 179 (2022) — CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS: Provides relative to annual filing and reporting requirements of charitable organizations. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB179 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1255277)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3979, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1276789)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4109, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1277214)
4. **SB179 Act 262** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1288691)
5. **SB179 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261724)
6. **SB179 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1263746)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #878, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261436)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #919, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261682)
9. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #969, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1262051)
10. **SB179 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283537)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1113) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#847) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#96) — **37–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mike Reese — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-03** Effective date 6/3/2022.
- **2022-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 262. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/27/2022. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-26** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-26** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-25** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2022-05-24** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2022-05-24** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/24/2022.
- **2022-05-11** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-05-09** Reported with amendments (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-05** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-04** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-03-29** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 1 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-03-28** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-03-23** Reported with amendments.
- **2022-03-14** 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`
- **2022-03-03** 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/fb1f59aa-4a20-4db8-a0ba-47d27b387f72`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).