---
type: "Bill"
title: "WATER/WATERWAYS: Provides relative to construction of bulkheads on certain water bodies in St. Tammany Parish. (gov sig)"
description: "WATER/WATERWAYS: Provides relative to construction of bulkheads on certain water bodies in St. Tammany Parish. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 145"
citation: "Louisiana SB 145 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick McMath"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4cbb09ac-6c76-4482-85e8-6978e0fb9e2f"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248498"
source_hash: "629866c2acb087ab48d0efe322939285161efd62a0f7e1e6354f3f4ca1968ab9"
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 SB 145 (2025) — WATER/WATERWAYS: Provides relative to construction of bulkheads on certain water bodies in St. Tammany Parish. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB145 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403862)
2. **SB145 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424988)
3. **SB145 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406068)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #533, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405881)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #574, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406007)
6. **SB145 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420535)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#762) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#53) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Patrick McMath — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date 6/8/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 115. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-04** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-03** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-03** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-02** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/2025.
- **2025-05-27** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-21** Reported favorably (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-24** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-04-23** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-16** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4cbb09ac-6c76-4482-85e8-6978e0fb9e2f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).