---
type: "Bill"
title: "PORTS/HARBORS/TERMINALS: Provides relative to the Port of Iberia. (8/1/22)"
description: "PORTS/HARBORS/TERMINALS: Provides relative to the Port of Iberia. (8/1/22)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 68"
citation: "Louisiana SB 68 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fred H. Mills, Jr."]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-02-24"
last_action: "2022-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ade10f3c-da0e-49e3-9489-aa9880d15809"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241729"
source_hash: "94fb99bbc4855612b45f00f934c49c45c74d99b85b3e3cd852dbbd8f01247e4e"
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 68 (2022) — PORTS/HARBORS/TERMINALS: Provides relative to the Port of Iberia. (8/1/22)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB68 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1250133)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3992, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1276764)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4040, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1276933)
4. **SB68 Act 174** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286269)
5. **SB68 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267953)
6. **SB68 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1269724)
7. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1657, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1268179)
8. **SB68 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283510)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#840) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1102) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#248) — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-31** Effective date 8/1/2022.
- **2022-05-31** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 174. `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 33 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 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-17** 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 (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-19** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-18** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-04-13** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-04-12** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-04-11** Reported favorably.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ade10f3c-da0e-49e3-9489-aa9880d15809`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).