---
type: "Bill"
title: "PLANNING/ZONING: Provides for the jurisdictional boundaries of the Benton Metropolitan Planning Commission. (8/1/23)"
description: "PLANNING/ZONING: Provides for the jurisdictional boundaries of the Benton Metropolitan Planning Commission. (8/1/23)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 87"
citation: "Louisiana SB 87 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert Mills"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-29"
last_action: "2023-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/886386ec-7ac0-483a-a9a7-7fe9e43e7d0c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244255"
source_hash: "aaa7a00fcbac4216d17e5dcd1989ba6a18860bedd74f79508e4b34c27ec79b2f"
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 87 (2023) — PLANNING/ZONING: Provides for the jurisdictional boundaries of the Benton Metropolitan Planning Commission. (8/1/23)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB87 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1307910)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #3820, Crews, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327897)
3. **SB87 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332215)
4. **SB87 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316780)
5. **SB87 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329436)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#676) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#860) — **97–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#218) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Robert Mills — 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. 205. `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 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-02** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-01** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 1. 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`
- **2023-05-09** 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 35 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`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal 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/886386ec-7ac0-483a-a9a7-7fe9e43e7d0c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).