---
type: "Bill"
title: "DISTRICTS/ECONOMIC DEVEL: Provides relative to the Lower Ninth Ward Economic Development District in Orleans Parish"
description: "DISTRICTS/ECONOMIC DEVEL: Provides relative to the Lower Ninth Ward Economic Development District in Orleans Parish"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 553"
citation: "Louisiana HB 553 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jimmy Harris"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac93b4d1-4e17-4f48-acb8-8555241b8468"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236403"
source_hash: "41dfc7bdef0ea5e158382c3758a1286e21f69def6ed0a4e0756000b28288eff7"
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 553 (2019) — DISTRICTS/ECONOMIC DEVEL: Provides relative to the Lower Ninth Ward Economic Development District in Orleans Parish

## Version chain

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

1. **HB553 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122242)
2. **HB553 Act 322** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144252)
3. **HB553 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134973)
4. **HB553 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136906)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2631, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133769)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2795, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134930)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #3164, Harris, J., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136785)
8. **HB553 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141427)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#507) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#834) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jimmy Harris — primary (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 322. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-06-02** Rules suspended.
- **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.
- **2019-05-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-23** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/19.
- **2019-05-20** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-16** Reported with amendments (14-0).
- **2019-04-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-17** 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/ac93b4d1-4e17-4f48-acb8-8555241b8468`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).