---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC CONTRACTS: Provides for work performed by certain public entities to restore or rehabilitate certain levees. (8/1/25)"
description: "PUBLIC CONTRACTS: Provides for work performed by certain public entities to restore or rehabilitate certain levees. (8/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 167"
citation: "Louisiana SB 167 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Franklin J. Foil"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ec6efc01-be39-4762-928e-f7d4a5f943d1"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248649"
source_hash: "56264f7d9037d3ce9faffafebc9d7002b01906c34e3f75dc373bdb36b6a2ab92"
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 167 (2025) — PUBLIC CONTRACTS: Provides for work performed by certain public entities to restore or rehabilitate certain levees. (8/1/25)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB167 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404446)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #3361, Bourriaque, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417408)
3. **SB167 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424993)
4. **SB167 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407728)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #691, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406962)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #792, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407653)
7. **SB167 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419989)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#688) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#108) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#506) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Franklin J. Foil — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 117. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-03** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-03** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-02** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-01** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-05-28** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-28** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/2025.
- **2025-05-21** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-19** Reported favorably (8-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-05** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-04-29** Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-23** 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 Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ec6efc01-be39-4762-928e-f7d4a5f943d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).