---
type: "Bill"
title: "DISTRICTS/ECONOMIC DEVEL: Creates the Ferriday Downtown Entertainment District"
description: "DISTRICTS/ECONOMIC DEVEL: Creates the Ferriday Downtown Entertainment District"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 182"
citation: "Louisiana HB 182 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Travis Johnson"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-26"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c9fa6d7-b660-487d-8528-7bb51d94a17e"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245756"
source_hash: "835d8a2102557e8a937453ed23e3701de282f69ce8d8f1d7a05900e8a3999b6a"
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 182 (2024) — DISTRICTS/ECONOMIC DEVEL: Creates the Ferriday Downtown Entertainment District

## Version chain

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

1. **HB182 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346588)
2. **HB182 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379510)
3. **HB182 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360169)
4. **HB182 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362683)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2021, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359441)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2114, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360083)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2265, Johnson, Travis, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362336)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1449, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360513)
9. **HB182 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375853)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#290) — **85–12** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#859) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- C. Travis Johnson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-23** Effective date: 07/01/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 200. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-21** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-24** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-04** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 85, nays 12. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/2024.
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-02** Reported with amendments (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-19** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-18** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-11** Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date. `filing`
- **2024-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1c9fa6d7-b660-487d-8528-7bb51d94a17e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).