---
type: "Bill"
title: "SABINE RIVER AUTHORITY: Provides relative to board appointments for the Sabine River Authority"
description: "SABINE RIVER AUTHORITY: Provides relative to board appointments for the Sabine River Authority"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 146"
citation: "Louisiana HB 146 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Les Farnum"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-23"
last_action: "2024-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bde84cce-967d-47f3-a189-94c6b9a1bf15"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245710"
source_hash: "c112603dd5071f437aaab4e725b2ec8baf867e92e627d6affe9deaa89c50502a"
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 146 (2024) — SABINE RIVER AUTHORITY: Provides relative to board appointments for the Sabine River Authority

## Version chain

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

1. **HB146 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345842)
2. **HB146 Act 601** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382330)
3. **HB146 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354121)
4. **HB146 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355916)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1369, Farnum, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355312)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3170, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372457)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3248, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372734)
8. **HB146 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379364)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#25) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#791) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1470) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Les Farnum — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 601. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/28/2024.
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-15** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-08** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-03-19** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/19/2024.
- **2024-03-18** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-13** Reported favorably (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/23/2024.
- **2024-02-23** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bde84cce-967d-47f3-a189-94c6b9a1bf15`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).