---
type: "Bill"
title: "LEVEES/BDS & DISTRICTS: Provides relative to the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East and Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-West Bank"
description: "LEVEES/BDS & DISTRICTS: Provides relative to the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East and Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-West Bank"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 688"
citation: "Louisiana HB 688 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jacob Braud"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 30
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-05-13"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2c49bb5-bdb4-4b27-92e5-4681f86dafa5"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=249156"
source_hash: "898e85595c0de1393aef6d0e2949452dfd8d49cedb239ecfc68b9e28c5bb8a98"
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 688 (2025) — LEVEES/BDS & DISTRICTS: Provides relative to the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East and Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-West Bank

## Version chain

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

1. **HB688 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413852)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #4282, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423376)
3. **HB688 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426022)
4. **HB688 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413931)
5. **HB688 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416203)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #2831, Braud, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414512)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2495, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419741)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2885, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421774)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2995, Connick, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422460)
10. **HB688 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424845)

## Votes

- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1208) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1023) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#741) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT (#937) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#463) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jacob Braud — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date: 06/20/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 395. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-12** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-11** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2025-06-11** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2025-06-11** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-11** Rules suspended.
- **2025-06-11** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 101, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2025-06-11** Rules suspended.
- **2025-06-11** Conference committee report received.
- **2025-06-11** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2025-06-11** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2025-06-11** House conferees appointed: Braud, Bourriaque, and Boyer.
- **2025-06-11** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2025-06-10** Senate conference committee members appointed: Connick, Abraham, and Talbot.
- **2025-06-09** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2025-06-09** Read by title, roll called, yeas 102, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2025-06-08** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/09/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. 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`
- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-20** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-19** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2025.
- **2025-05-14** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-13** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 633 reported by the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works (12-0).

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e2c49bb5-bdb4-4b27-92e5-4681f86dafa5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).