---
type: "Bill"
title: "TAX/INCOME/PERSONAL: Creates an individual income tax refund checkoff donation for Maddie's Footprints. (8/1/22) (EN NO IMPACT SG EX See Note)"
description: "TAX/INCOME/PERSONAL: Creates an individual income tax refund checkoff donation for Maddie's Footprints. (8/1/22) (EN NO IMPACT SG EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 85"
citation: "Louisiana SB 85 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick Page Cortez"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-25"
last_action: "2022-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a80f6c4-8337-428c-a5c5-88c599beda53"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241798"
source_hash: "6a53a9bfeec64bf4da1c51afa3611d1a103844ffb37a68584c3e440e8ec9e3f0"
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 85 (2022) — TAX/INCOME/PERSONAL: Creates an individual income tax refund checkoff donation for Maddie's Footprints. (8/1/22) (EN NO IMPACT SG EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB85 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1251096)
2. **SB85 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280631)
3. **SB85 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1260869)
4. **SB85 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278256)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#793) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#54) — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Patrick Page Cortez — primary (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-17** Effective date 8/1/2022.
- **2022-05-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 66. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-15** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/12/2022. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-12** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-12** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-11** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2022-05-11** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2022.
- **2022-05-04** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-05-02** Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-03-28** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-24** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-03-23** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-03-22** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-03-21** Reported favorably.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal 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/0a80f6c4-8337-428c-a5c5-88c599beda53`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).