---
type: "Bill"
title: "STATE SYMBOL: Provides for an official state steam locomotive"
description: "STATE SYMBOL: Provides for an official state steam locomotive"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 902"
citation: "Louisiana HB 902 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debbie Villio"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-04-04"
last_action: "2022-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f6691aa-4f2b-48cd-8da1-62b48e150cc4"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242963"
source_hash: "5f1fefc8311e69174174cf3be31b26ab03ba9cf6ce7961879da46f9e64c7b2c0"
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 902 (2022) — STATE SYMBOL: Provides for an official state steam locomotive

## Version chain

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

1. **HB902 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1264943)
2. **HB902 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286169)
3. **HB902 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1271452)
4. **HB902 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280382)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#687) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#596) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Debbie Villio — primary (person)
- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Robert "Bob" Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-25** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 191. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-23** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/19/2022.
- **2022-05-19** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-17** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-17** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-12** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-11** Reported favorably.
- **2022-05-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-04** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-05-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/03/2022.
- **2022-04-21** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-20** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2022-04-05** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-04** 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/0f6691aa-4f2b-48cd-8da1-62b48e150cc4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).