---
type: "Bill"
title: "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Creates the North Lake Charles Economic Development District and provides relative to the Southside Economic Development District of the City of Monroe"
description: "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Creates the North Lake Charles Economic Development District and provides relative to the Southside Economic Development District of the City of Monroe"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 335"
citation: "Louisiana HB 335 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wilford Carter , Sr."]
version_count: 16
action_count: 39
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-03-29"
last_action: "2023-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90e9b15e-869b-4b60-a70c-94b186fbe83a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244233"
source_hash: "2d00d4d9a6c1e109721f495076dcf75c6e1d1c7010219cd396af42bcfef76162"
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 335 (2023) — ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Creates the North Lake Charles Economic Development District and provides relative to the Southside Economic Development District of the City of Monroe

## Version chain

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

1. **HB335 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1307849)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #4224, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331386)
3. **HB335 Act 306** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332459)
4. **HB335 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321543)
5. **HB335 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324706)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1895, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317279)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2785, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321491)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #2947, Carter, Wilford, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322494)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #3252, Fontenot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324036)
10. **House Floor Amendment, #3330, Carter, Wilford, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324416)
11. **House Floor Amendment, #3357, Edmonds, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324529)
12. **House Floor Amendment, #3367, Farnum, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324566)
13. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1665, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321655)
14. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2437, L&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327066)
15. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2619, L&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328275)
16. **HB335 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331759)

## Votes

- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1189) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#571) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 3357 BY EDMONDS, MOTION TO ADOPT (#568) — **53–43** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#847) — **38–1** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT (#994) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1074) — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wilford Carter , Sr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-13** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 306. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-08** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-08** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2023-06-08** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2023-06-08** Rules suspended.
- **2023-06-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/08/2023.
- **2023-06-07** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2023-06-07** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2023-06-07** House conferees appointed: Wilford Carter, Edmonds, and Fisher.
- **2023-06-07** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2023-06-06** Senate conference committee members appointed: Bouie, Stine, and Jackson.
- **2023-06-06** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 101, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-02** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-06-01** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-24** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-23** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-22** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-05-22** Read by title, amended, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-05-22** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-05-22** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2023.
- **2023-05-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-11** Reported with amendments (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/90e9b15e-869b-4b60-a70c-94b186fbe83a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).