---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC BUILDINGS/GROUNDS: Provides for naming City Park in Lafayette in honor of a deceased person. (8/1/25)"
description: "PUBLIC BUILDINGS/GROUNDS: Provides for naming City Park in Lafayette in honor of a deceased person. (8/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 18"
citation: "Louisiana SB 18 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gerald Boudreaux"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-19"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd2431f0-459b-4be3-ae11-79ff48969cf8"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247980"
source_hash: "7701520879bdd4a6e28a21b4c9ef3fa82a1b0b4bd11b7b44e07cd10c3fff2bc8"
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 18 (2025) — PUBLIC BUILDINGS/GROUNDS: Provides for naming City Park in Lafayette in honor of a deceased person. (8/1/25)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB18 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1397494)
2. **SB18 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425494)
3. **SB18 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407809)
4. **SB18 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422179)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#912) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#83) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gerald Boudreaux — primary (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 316. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-10** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-08** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-03** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-29** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-05** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `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 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-23** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bd2431f0-459b-4be3-ae11-79ff48969cf8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).