---
type: "Bill"
title: "SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Provides for the creation of the St. Martin Parish Economic and Industrial Development District. (8/1/25)"
description: "SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Provides for the creation of the St. Martin Parish Economic and Industrial Development District. (8/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 187"
citation: "Louisiana SB 187 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gerald Boudreaux"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/61d3509c-e5da-42c5-8211-8fa8507b6bdc"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248669"
source_hash: "e400971cc39e2ba70577dcaa0179d188ab0f63180b7d0797b29084011cc93e6a"
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 187 (2025) — SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Provides for the creation of the St. Martin Parish Economic and Industrial Development District. (8/1/25)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB187 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404517)
2. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2488, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419622)
3. **SB187 Act 442** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426049)
4. **SB187 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407841)
5. **SB187 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410095)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #685, L&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406922)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #811, L&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407682)
8. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1029, Boudreaux, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409709)
9. **SB187 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423758)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#860) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#114) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#923) — **89–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 442. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-10** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-10** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-09** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-04** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 4. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-03** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-02** Reported with 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 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 Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** 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/61d3509c-e5da-42c5-8211-8fa8507b6bdc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).