---
type: "Bill"
title: "PROPERTY/EXPROPRIATION: Authorizes the parish of Lincoln to expropriate property by a declaration of taking"
description: "PROPERTY/EXPROPRIATION: Authorizes the parish of Lincoln to expropriate property by a declaration of taking"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 98"
citation: "Louisiana HB 98 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rashid Young"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-24"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c67301d2-357d-4f21-be15-26446f893bca"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247995"
source_hash: "90313be605cf65101a9baf68c7e53cde0fa5e284e17fbe27b2e65036c5407d00"
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 98 (2025) — PROPERTY/EXPROPRIATION: Authorizes the parish of Lincoln to expropriate property by a declaration of taking

## Version chain

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

1. **HB98 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1397951)
2. **HB98 Act 484** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1427671)
3. **HB98 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411685)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2014, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410154)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2286, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411617)
6. **HB98 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419694)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#460) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#325) — **87–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rashid Young — primary (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. 484 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2025-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-21** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended.
- **2025-05-20** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-12** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-12** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 7. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2025.
- **2025-05-07** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-06** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-23** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-22** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
- **2025-04-14** Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date. `filing`
- **2025-03-28** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/28/2025.
- **2025-03-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c67301d2-357d-4f21-be15-26446f893bca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).