---
type: "Bill"
title: "WATER/SEWER OPERATORS: Provides for a special master for New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board. (gov sig)"
description: "WATER/SEWER OPERATORS: Provides for a special master for New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 305"
citation: "Louisiana SB 305 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jimmy Harris"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95e09841-2b30-4fe6-843f-c047cf126d37"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246586"
source_hash: "c618278e42b5d9f26f8fe512749e09facabf6363df97339d540eeb34ae4b9c0b"
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 305 (2024) — WATER/SEWER OPERATORS: Provides for a special master for New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB305 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352687)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #4709, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375109)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4761, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375863)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #5107, Hughes, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378255)
5. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3821, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376007)
6. **SB305 Act 763** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382653)
7. **SB305 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362023)
8. **SB305 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364198)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1564, L&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361965)
10. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1628, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362387)
11. **SB305 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379016)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#259) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#1220) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1358) — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jimmy Harris — primary (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date 6/19/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 763. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-30** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-23** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-23** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-05-23** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/2024.
- **2024-05-22** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-21** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-20** Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-10** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-09** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-04-03** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** 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/95e09841-2b30-4fe6-843f-c047cf126d37`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).