---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHWAYS: Designates certain portions of Louisiana Highways"
description: "HIGHWAYS: Designates certain portions of Louisiana Highways"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 83"
citation: "Louisiana HB 83 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vincent Cox III"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-17"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2cf0941-a505-4a48-85bd-bf00842fd9aa"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247970"
source_hash: "10f9a8ed43260d841bc41681694637c27090d0f25647a6ef27c5135f5dd16a64"
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 83 (2025) — HIGHWAYS: Designates certain portions of Louisiana Highways

## Version chain

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

1. **HB83 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1397157)
2. **HB83 Act 54** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422259)
3. **HB83 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405766)
4. **HB83 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408453)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1157, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405421)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1216, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405596)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1479, Romero, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407156)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #1656, Fontenot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408312)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1318, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411974)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1431, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412752)
11. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1651, Connick, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414128)
12. **HB83 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418601)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#8) — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#293) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#618) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Vincent Cox III — primary (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 54. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-27** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/27/2025.
- **2025-05-21** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-20** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-12** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-08** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-28** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-24** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2025.
- **2025-04-16** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-15** Reported with amendments (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/21/2025.
- **2025-03-17** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2cf0941-a505-4a48-85bd-bf00842fd9aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).