---
type: "Bill"
title: "DISTRICTS/NEIGHBORHOOD: Provides relative to the Faubourg Marigny Security and Improvement District in Orleans Parish"
description: "DISTRICTS/NEIGHBORHOOD: Provides relative to the Faubourg Marigny Security and Improvement District in Orleans Parish"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 237"
citation: "Louisiana HB 237 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Candace N. Newell"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-27"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b008eb99-7d2c-4678-a13d-05e95683e81d"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245850"
source_hash: "ed538bd34794d33888f731b8e654b27813d39022d1ef500ca024ccc17c89fd5b"
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 237 (2024) — DISTRICTS/NEIGHBORHOOD: Provides relative to the Faubourg Marigny Security and Improvement District in Orleans Parish

## Version chain

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

1. **HB237 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347740)
2. **HB237 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379527)
3. **HB237 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364685)
4. **HB237 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366757)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2984, Newell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365798)
6. **HB237 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374170)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#566) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#657) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Candace N. Newell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-23** Effective date: 05/23/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 209. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-14** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-13** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-06** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-01** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-17** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/17/2024.
- **2024-04-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-11** Reported favorably (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-11** Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date. `filing`
- **2024-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b008eb99-7d2c-4678-a13d-05e95683e81d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).