---
type: "Bill"
title: "TOURISM/COMMISSION: Provides relative to hotel occupancy taxes levied by certain tourist commissions and convention and visitors bureaus (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)"
description: "TOURISM/COMMISSION: Provides relative to hotel occupancy taxes levied by certain tourist commissions and convention and visitors bureaus (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 292"
citation: "Louisiana HB 292 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephen Dwight"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-26"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/34c077de-2b78-4161-b71d-628aa9b755d8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237885"
source_hash: "152fb7845344ebdf960461ef8719f816691188634041ecc912feb53a072f7b72"
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 292 (2020) — TOURISM/COMMISSION: Provides relative to hotel occupancy taxes levied by certain tourist commissions and convention and visitors bureaus (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB292 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1160833)
2. **HB292 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181917)
3. **HB292 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170395)
4. **HB292 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177624)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#110) — **93–2** (pass) · lower
- RECOMMIT (#420) — **25–6** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#522) — **31–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stephen Dwight — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 07/01/2020.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 184. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-28** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-27** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.
- **2020-05-27** By a vote of 25 yeas and 6 nays.
- **2020-05-27** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/34c077de-2b78-4161-b71d-628aa9b755d8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).