---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHWAYS: Designates a portion of Louisiana Highway 433 in St. Tammany Parish as the \"Captain Walter B. Abney Memorial Highway\""
description: "HIGHWAYS: Designates a portion of Louisiana Highway 433 in St. Tammany Parish as the \"Captain Walter B. Abney Memorial Highway\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 73"
citation: "Louisiana HB 73 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mary DuBuisson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-08"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02d24027-3a7d-4095-96d3-055b332b4016"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243910"
source_hash: "737a620cf49a2c8dd6d1f15a1c4a5ea134922e727ad68f07596512aba70a8882"
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 73 (2023) — HIGHWAYS: Designates a portion of Louisiana Highway 433 in St. Tammany Parish as the "Captain Walter B. Abney Memorial Highway"

## Version chain

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

1. **HB73 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1302174)
2. **HB73 Act 54** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331177)
3. **HB73 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1310847)
4. **HB73 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325823)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#14) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#418) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mary DuBuisson — primary (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 54. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-25** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-24** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-24** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-16** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-15** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-17** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/17/2023.
- **2023-04-12** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-11** Reported favorably (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-10** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/10/2023.
- **2023-03-08** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-08** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/02d24027-3a7d-4095-96d3-055b332b4016`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).