---
type: "Bill"
title: "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Provides relative to financial incentives for events held in Louisiana. (7/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
description: "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Provides relative to financial incentives for events held in Louisiana. (7/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 201"
citation: "Louisiana SB 201 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jimmy Harris"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e8b11f5-f4ac-41da-9475-6d9194477021"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248710"
source_hash: "a1563b9583ace632a9b8f56cd6db72e9943c8bd96fce299363612e97c1569429"
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 201 (2025) — ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Provides relative to financial incentives for events held in Louisiana. (7/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB201 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404632)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3436, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417791)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3450, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417844)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3504, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418305)
5. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2288, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418467)
6. **SB201 Act 446** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426054)
7. **SB201 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408951)
8. **SB201 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412582)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #859, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408276)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #948, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408825)
11. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1145, Harris, Jimmy, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410475)
12. **SB201 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423887)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#840) — **81–10** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#189) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#861) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jimmy Harris — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date 7/1/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 446. `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`
- **2025-06-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 81, nays 10. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2025.
- **2025-05-29** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-28** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-27** Reported with amendments (16-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-08** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-07** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-07** Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-04-30** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-04-29** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-28** 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 Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Finance. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1e8b11f5-f4ac-41da-9475-6d9194477021`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).