---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC LANDS: Authorizes the sale of certain school property by the Natchitoches Parish School Board and the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. (gov sig)"
description: "PUBLIC LANDS: Authorizes the sale of certain school property by the Natchitoches Parish School Board and the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 59"
citation: "Louisiana SB 59 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Louie Bernard"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-27"
last_action: "2023-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/526a8c01-a704-486d-9022-c1d459e88d9d"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244094"
source_hash: "cefcc3a4a9d969abcdab016d4e8347172738767e5d98abe661137cdc1687d26c"
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 59 (2023) — PUBLIC LANDS: Authorizes the sale of certain school property by the Natchitoches Parish School Board and the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB59 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1305957)
2. **SB59 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329071)
3. **SB59 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313523)
4. **SB59 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326741)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#696) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#119) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Louie Bernard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-01** Effective date 6/1/2023.
- **2023-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 39. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-05-30** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-29** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/25/2023.
- **2023-05-15** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-11** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-10** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-01** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-27** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-04-26** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-04-25** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-04-24** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/526a8c01-a704-486d-9022-c1d459e88d9d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).