---
type: "Bill"
title: "FLOODING/CONTROL: Names the Lake Borgne Surge Barrier after President George W. Bush"
description: "FLOODING/CONTROL: Names the Lake Borgne Surge Barrier after President George W. Bush"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 660"
citation: "Louisiana HB 660 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Bayham"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/511ace98-778f-4fc8-900c-26076a58fb5f"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246466"
source_hash: "29fd30e493767b004bc05bf6f06ef00b7e6d4b6bd18cc02461dbbb324adea69c"
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 660 (2024) — FLOODING/CONTROL: Names the Lake Borgne Surge Barrier after President George W. Bush

## Version chain

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

1. **HB660 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352296)
2. **HB660 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381920)
3. **HB660 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361975)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1988, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359173)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2285, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361851)
6. **HB660 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378377)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1137) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#357) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mike Bayham — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 441. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-23** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 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** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-15** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-09** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-09** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/09/2024.
- **2024-04-04** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-03** Reported with amendments (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/511ace98-778f-4fc8-900c-26076a58fb5f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).