---
type: "Bill"
title: "SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Provides for the boundaries and certain payments to the New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority Economic Growth and Development District. (8/1/23)"
description: "SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Provides for the boundaries and certain payments to the New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority Economic Growth and Development District. (8/1/23)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 229"
citation: "Louisiana SB 229 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Royce Duplessis"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-04-19"
last_action: "2023-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3abf1290-c4f6-476f-adb4-91f8ac06d984"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244807"
source_hash: "50f6b64ec19308dbf154e22884f35840e874b0e315cecee501464f8745a2435c"
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 229 (2023) — SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Provides for the boundaries and certain payments to the New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority Economic Growth and Development District. (8/1/23)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB229 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313281)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #3887, Knox, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328316)
3. **SB229 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332222)
4. **SB229 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316777)
5. **SB229 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319869)
6. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1263, Duplessis, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318478)
7. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1080, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317154)
8. **SB229 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329395)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#865) — **92–2** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#224) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#674) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Royce Duplessis — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-08** Effective date 8/1/2023.
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 212. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-01** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-01** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 2. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-31** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/01/2023.
- **2023-05-23** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-18** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-09** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-08** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-02** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-05-01** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-24** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-19** Introduced in the Senate. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3abf1290-c4f6-476f-adb4-91f8ac06d984`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).