---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC LANDS: Provides for the transfer of certain state property in Caddo Parish."
description: "PUBLIC LANDS: Provides for the transfer of certain state property in Caddo Parish."
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 31"
citation: "Louisiana SB 31 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Samuel Jenkins"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-28"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aeddf858-4e4b-4dd5-994c-22a9b6262aa4"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248049"
source_hash: "ecd706b8a0cfcbe16357ad2277fa9040910af700941cd371e922866b04b4db9b"
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 31 (2025) — PUBLIC LANDS: Provides for the transfer of certain state property in Caddo Parish.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB31 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1399549)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #3410, Jackson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417618)
3. **SB31 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424912)
4. **SB31 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407757)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #491, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405487)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #818, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407652)
7. **SB31 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420012)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#724) — **89–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#85) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#510) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Samuel Jenkins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date 6/8/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 93. `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.
- **2025-05-29** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/2025.
- **2025-05-22** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-20** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-05** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `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 Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-28** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aeddf858-4e4b-4dd5-994c-22a9b6262aa4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).