---
type: "Bill"
title: "DISTRICTS/CRIME PREVENT: Creates the Cross Gates Subdivision Crime Prevention and Neighborhood Improvement District in East Baton Rouge Parish"
description: "DISTRICTS/CRIME PREVENT: Creates the Cross Gates Subdivision Crime Prevention and Neighborhood Improvement District in East Baton Rouge Parish"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 55"
citation: "Louisiana HB 55 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paula Davis"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-11"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c65f4b5-c4cc-4244-a52e-2b0c4bdd9776"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247941"
source_hash: "03c2e5d53281e1b0b66d09040513908e1aa7b49aaab9e5e2440cc7a85b29ec24"
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 55 (2025) — DISTRICTS/CRIME PREVENT: Creates the Cross Gates Subdivision Crime Prevention and Neighborhood Improvement District in East Baton Rouge Parish

## Version chain

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

1. **HB55 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1396283)
2. **HB55 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422241)
3. **HB55 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408156)
4. **HB55 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411326)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #901, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408533)
6. **HB55 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419223)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#171) — **77–14** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#424) — **34–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Paula Davis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04** Effective date: 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 49. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-05-30** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/29/2025.
- **2025-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-14** 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 77, nays 14. 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** Reported favorably (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/14/2025.
- **2025-03-11** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c65f4b5-c4cc-4244-a52e-2b0c4bdd9776`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).