---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHWAYS: Designates the bridge located on Interstate 55 service road in Manchac between Lake Maurepas and Lake Pontchartrain as the \"Robert E. Mayers, Jr. Memorial Bridge\""
description: "HIGHWAYS: Designates the bridge located on Interstate 55 service road in Manchac between Lake Maurepas and Lake Pontchartrain as the \"Robert E. Mayers, Jr. Memorial Bridge\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 50"
citation: "Louisiana HB 50 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William \"Bill\" Wheat , Jr."]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-28"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0228dedd-7856-44e5-9612-2fb5dcc3925f"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243880"
source_hash: "936750fa23e279932d0a31abfbe2616f2be5de50d5f5c101c1feead3572c91d5"
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 50 (2023) — HIGHWAYS: Designates the bridge located on Interstate 55 service road in Manchac between Lake Maurepas and Lake Pontchartrain as the "Robert E. Mayers, Jr. Memorial Bridge"

## Version chain

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

1. **HB50 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1301155)
2. **HB50 Act 109** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331985)
3. **HB50 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1310933)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1011, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1310839)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1023, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1310918)
6. **HB50 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326888)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#12) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#475) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 109. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-18** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-17** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/17/2023.
- **2023-04-12** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-11** Reported with amendments (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/3/2023.
- **2023-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0228dedd-7856-44e5-9612-2fb5dcc3925f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).