---
type: "Bill"
title: "BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides relative to the Atchafalaya Trace Commission and Atchafalaya Trace Heritage Area"
description: "BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides relative to the Atchafalaya Trace Commission and Atchafalaya Trace Heritage Area"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 319"
citation: "Louisiana HB 319 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph Orgeron"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-02"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb9e30bb-d666-4b34-97ac-567994939b6b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248284"
source_hash: "1916df411f379ebe81d59b2fff50488e391df5ee1e6e1843ff48cb5a0af15cd6"
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 319 (2025) — BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides relative to the Atchafalaya Trace Commission and Atchafalaya Trace Heritage Area

## Version chain

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

1. **HB319 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402290)
2. **HB319 Act 475** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1427661)
3. **HB319 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417530)
4. **HB319 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422855)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#668) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#703) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joseph Orgeron — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 475. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-08** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** 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`
- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-28** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/2025.
- **2025-05-27** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-22** Reported favorably (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bb9e30bb-d666-4b34-97ac-567994939b6b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).