---
type: "Bill"
title: "BLIGHTED PROPERTY: Provides for the demolition or removal of dilapidated and dangerous buildings or structures by the governing authority of a parish or municipality. (8/1/25)"
description: "BLIGHTED PROPERTY: Provides for the demolition or removal of dilapidated and dangerous buildings or structures by the governing authority of a parish or municipality. (8/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 236"
citation: "Louisiana SB 236 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rick Edmonds"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-22"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2d85c40b-1af5-4f25-895b-793c07b50e20"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248882"
source_hash: "350f5ce34a1fe3983420d70c5213432e48f624508ece3bc9b4adf56ff55e41d2"
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 236 (2025) — BLIGHTED PROPERTY: Provides for the demolition or removal of dilapidated and dangerous buildings or structures by the governing authority of a parish or municipality. (8/1/25)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB236 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407082)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #4054, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421518)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4074, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421780)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #4244, McMakin, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423117)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #4294, McMakin, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423469)
6. **SB236 Act 456** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426064)
7. **SB236 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412979)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1465, L&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412930)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #947, L&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408826)
10. **SB236 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424197)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#250) — **29–8** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#899) — **33–5** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1038) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rick Edmonds — primary (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. 456. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-11** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-10** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 33 yeas and 5 nays.
- **2025-06-09** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-09** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-09** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/09/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended.
- **2025-06-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-06-04** Reported with amendments (14-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-19** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-15** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-14** Read by title, passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 8 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-12** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-05-08** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-22** Introduced in the Senate. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2d85c40b-1af5-4f25-895b-793c07b50e20`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).