---
type: "Bill"
title: "WATER/WATERWAYS: Provides for waters of the state. (gov sig)"
description: "WATER/WATERWAYS: Provides for waters of the state. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 94"
citation: "Louisiana SB 94 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael \"Big Mike\" Fesi"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-03"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f69eaaf3-1e8b-4d1b-a413-d4d60f075df6"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248319"
source_hash: "00b7466e2627dda16e5f5d47ed9dd6b55e88bc205d2bed7943a9222011aec4ba"
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 94 (2025) — WATER/WATERWAYS: Provides for waters of the state. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB94 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402606)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3156, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416026)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3229, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416501)
4. **SB94 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424930)
5. **SB94 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410466)
6. **SB94 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411955)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1103, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410237)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #976, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409295)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1306, Fesi, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411734)
10. **SB94 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421289)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#164) — **35–2** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#633) — **35–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#750) — **81–14** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — 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. 105. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/5/2025. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-04** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-03** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 1 nays.
- **2025-06-02** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 81, nays 14. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/2025.
- **2025-05-22** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-20** Reported with amendments (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-06** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 2 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-05** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-30** 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`
- **2025-04-03** 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/f69eaaf3-1e8b-4d1b-a413-d4d60f075df6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).