---
type: "Bill"
title: "MUNICIPAL: Provides relative to the judicial review of land use"
description: "MUNICIPAL: Provides relative to the judicial review of land use"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 446"
citation: "Louisiana HB 446 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Annie Spell"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0bc9b99a-24fd-423e-97da-ed66b830616a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248453"
source_hash: "dbd5d9009b456c327e163b0fc1abba5de37d0b9490052dcb967a4a45a08c2ec2"
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 446 (2025) — MUNICIPAL: Provides relative to the judicial review of land use

## Version chain

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

1. **HB446 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403642)
2. **HB446 Act 277** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425591)
3. **HB446 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410431)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1360, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407581)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2062, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410403)
6. **HB446 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421509)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#297) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#656) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Annie Spell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 06/11/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 277. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-04** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-03** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-03** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-05-29** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-05-29** Rules suspended.
- **2025-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-27** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-08** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-08** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2025.
- **2025-05-05** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** Reported with amendments (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0bc9b99a-24fd-423e-97da-ed66b830616a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).