---
type: "Bill"
title: "MUNICIPAL/ORDINANCES: Provides relative to maximum penalties for violations of ordinances in St. Bernard Parish"
description: "MUNICIPAL/ORDINANCES: Provides relative to maximum penalties for violations of ordinances in St. Bernard Parish"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 32"
citation: "Louisiana HB 32 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Bayham"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-28"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f9a3e64-7c43-42de-bf25-b41b77e4cc42"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247918"
source_hash: "403e2cf7588b656082c736948b64906a12cd81744f727378659c1388b2405d0c"
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 32 (2025) — MUNICIPAL/ORDINANCES: Provides relative to maximum penalties for violations of ordinances in St. Bernard Parish

## Version chain

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

1. **HB32 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1395202)
2. **HB32 Act 482** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1427668)
3. **HB32 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408270)
4. **HB32 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411322)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1624, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408225)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #1955, Bayham, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409680)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2618, Bouie, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420345)
8. **HB32 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422051)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#166) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#552) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#865) — **89–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mike Bayham — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-01** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-07-01** Becomes Act No. 482 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-04** Read by title, roll called, yeas 89, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-29** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-06** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2025.
- **2025-04-28** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** Reported with amendments (18-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/28/2025.
- **2025-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f9a3e64-7c43-42de-bf25-b41b77e4cc42`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).