---
type: "Bill"
title: "DISTRICTS/INDUSTRIAL: Provides relative to the Sulphur Industrial Development District"
description: "DISTRICTS/INDUSTRIAL: Provides relative to the Sulphur Industrial Development District"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 537"
citation: "Louisiana HB 537 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Les Farnum"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-28"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b28d8bc5-48a0-4160-b73d-a6e06b7b399e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238264"
source_hash: "e1f700c9bdb955e05ef7f73c25aace045015bd20de40fc2eb4253959f1e81318"
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 537 (2020) — DISTRICTS/INDUSTRIAL: Provides relative to the Sulphur Industrial Development District

## Version chain

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

1. **HB537 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1163424)
2. **HB537 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181927)
3. **HB537 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170467)
4. **HB537 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173110)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1195, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170755)
6. **HB537 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177382)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#124) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#492) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Les Farnum — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 194. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** 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.
- **2020-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-27** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **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, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. 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).
- **2020-05-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-31** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
- **2020-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b28d8bc5-48a0-4160-b73d-a6e06b7b399e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).