---
type: "Bill"
title: "TRANSPORTATION: Provides relative to the Regional Transit Authority"
description: "TRANSPORTATION: Provides relative to the Regional Transit Authority"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 588"
citation: "Louisiana HB 588 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shaun Mena"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cc6c0f82-4556-4e53-aed7-daf074598222"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248634"
source_hash: "8bb029fa5d926e3c2bf7ef25f696250449ee77bcdd41b27d4ddc45d83116b773"
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 588 (2025) — TRANSPORTATION: Provides relative to the Regional Transit Authority

## Version chain

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

1. **HB588 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404400)
2. **HB588 Act 511** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1427705)
3. **HB588 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413878)
4. **HB588 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415117)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2270, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411554)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2660, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413575)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2799, Mena, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414292)
8. **HB588 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421505)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#642) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#401) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Shaun Mena — primary (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (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. 511 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **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`
- **2025-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-03** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 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`
- **2025-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-14** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2025.
- **2025-05-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-12** Reported with amendments (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `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/cc6c0f82-4556-4e53-aed7-daf074598222`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).