---
type: "Bill"
title: "TAX/SALES-USE, LOCAL: Authorizes the Jefferson Davis Parish School Board to levy an additional sales and use tax"
description: "TAX/SALES-USE, LOCAL: Authorizes the Jefferson Davis Parish School Board to levy an additional sales and use tax"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 57"
citation: "Louisiana HB 57 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Troy D. Romero"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-12"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bde226d6-1bf6-4d41-8ca1-2bb1015694fe"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247944"
source_hash: "0fbef50d4bfdbf89136fcfe8900dd26fed73329121e083b1af4d0bfd24b5e1ed"
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 57 (2025) — TAX/SALES-USE, LOCAL: Authorizes the Jefferson Davis Parish School Board to levy an additional sales and use tax

## Version chain

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

1. **HB57 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1396437)
2. **HB57 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425022)
3. **HB57 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408149)
4. **HB57 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420789)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#558) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#172) — **92–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Troy D. Romero — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date: 06/08/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 131. `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.
- **2025-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** 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, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 3. 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.
- **2025-03-12** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bde226d6-1bf6-4d41-8ca1-2bb1015694fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).