---
type: "Bill"
title: "RAILROADS: Provides relative to the board of commissioners of the Vermilion and Iberia Railroad Development District"
description: "RAILROADS: Provides relative to the board of commissioners of the Vermilion and Iberia Railroad Development District"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 381"
citation: "Louisiana HB 381 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Miguez"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a7374f38-3472-42cb-b840-9f281dc60c34"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236197"
source_hash: "c35ae7c6c4bdfe91e6256133dd7280ceafd9de81c2a9dc8235c848af6f309f3f"
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 HB 381 (2019) — RAILROADS: Provides relative to the board of commissioners of the Vermilion and Iberia Railroad Development District

## Version chain

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

1. **HB381 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121442)
2. **HB381 Act 159** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143692)
3. **HB381 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132604)
4. **HB381 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136444)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2414, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132556)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #2521, Miguez, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133202)
7. **HB381 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142203)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#883) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#462) — **91–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blake Miguez — primary (person)
- Robert E. Billiot — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 159. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-05** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-03** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-30** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-22** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-21** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/19.
- **2019-05-09** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-08** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2019-04-16** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-15** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a7374f38-3472-42cb-b840-9f281dc60c34`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).