---
type: "Bill"
title: "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Provides relative to requirements of industrial areas. (8/1/25) (EN NO IMPACT LF RV See Note)"
description: "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Provides relative to requirements of industrial areas. (8/1/25) (EN NO IMPACT LF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 79"
citation: "Louisiana SB 79 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adam Bass"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-02"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aec444f5-d37d-4717-9b58-8b944aee5a01"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248235"
source_hash: "2ee0fcd3b3efabf3c726fadf527c48e638efd3004373586f0c99ce640c429835"
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 79 (2025) — ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Provides relative to requirements of industrial areas. (8/1/25) (EN NO IMPACT LF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB79 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402078)
2. **SB79 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422218)
3. **SB79 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407549)
4. **SB79 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418834)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#95) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#682) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Adam Bass — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 36. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/30/2025. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-28** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/2025.
- **2025-05-21** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-19** 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 Commerce. `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. 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 Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International 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/aec444f5-d37d-4717-9b58-8b944aee5a01`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).