---
type: "Bill"
title: "SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Provides for creation of the Victoria Farms Crime Prevention and Improvement District. (8/1/23)"
description: "SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Provides for creation of the Victoria Farms Crime Prevention and Improvement District. (8/1/23)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 232"
citation: "Louisiana SB 232 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Regina Ashford Barrow"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-04-19"
last_action: "2023-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/179f0b92-f6b2-4e2b-994f-694f7f1cddbe"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244815"
source_hash: "08e55a6fa4501d9c585b8e284d623c6a0d0776f004e4db71ff477cb1df8a3d73"
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 232 (2023) — SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Provides for creation of the Victoria Farms Crime Prevention and Improvement District. (8/1/23)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB232 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313339)
2. **SB232 Act 197** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332184)
3. **SB232 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316774)
4. **SB232 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328795)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#867) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#227) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Regina Ashford Barrow — primary (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. 197. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-05** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-04** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-01** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. 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 (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-08** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-08** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, 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/179f0b92-f6b2-4e2b-994f-694f7f1cddbe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).