---
type: "Bill"
title: "TOURISM/COMMISSION: Provides relative to the River Parishes Convention, Tourist, and Visitors District"
description: "TOURISM/COMMISSION: Provides relative to the River Parishes Convention, Tourist, and Visitors District"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 590"
citation: "Louisiana HB 590 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Randal L. Gaines"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-16"
last_action: "2019-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/991689d3-b764-409e-8906-4d1dfa29e623"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236631"
source_hash: "4e4fcf2b8bc82477261c8baa4e6ff1594b2ea1c16b5ba4486d709b7bcd543e81"
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 590 (2019) — TOURISM/COMMISSION: Provides relative to the River Parishes Convention, Tourist, and Visitors District

## Version chain

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

1. **HB590 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125057)
2. **HB590 Act 168** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143701)
3. **HB590 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132493)
4. **HB590 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141430)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#465) — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#835) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Randal L. Gaines — primary (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. 168. `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 37 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.
- **2019-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-08** Reported favorably (15-0).
- **2019-04-17** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-16** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/991689d3-b764-409e-8906-4d1dfa29e623`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).