---
type: "Bill"
title: "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Provides relative to the governance of the Baton Rouge North Economic Development District. (gov sig)"
description: "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Provides relative to the governance of the Baton Rouge North Economic Development District. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 136"
citation: "Louisiana SB 136 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Regina Ashford Barrow"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 29
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-03-30"
last_action: "2023-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83d67e12-6709-40e9-91f7-73bf405396e3"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244389"
source_hash: "5536a720fd08f9b7b974df7b5fbf574a877589956965c90691beb753d56cad3f"
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 SB 136 (2023) — ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Provides relative to the governance of the Baton Rouge North Economic Development District. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB136 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308860)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #2998, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331420)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3561, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325856)
4. **SB136 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332587)
5. **SB136 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316779)
6. **SB136 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319875)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1304, Barrow, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318780)
8. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1068, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317141)
9. **SB136 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331937)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#221) — **32–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#959) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- REJECT (#903) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1217) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1020) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Regina Ashford Barrow — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-14** Effective date 6/14/2023.
- **2023-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 389. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-08** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2023-06-08** Rules suspended.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee report received.
- **2023-06-07** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2023-06-07** Senate conference committee members appointed: Barrow, Henry, and Jackson.
- **2023-06-07** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2023-06-07** House conferees appointed: Marcelle, Edmonds, and LaFleur.
- **2023-06-07** Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments.
- **2023-06-06** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
- **2023-05-31** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-25** Reported with amendments (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-09** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-08** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 1 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-02** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-05-01** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/83d67e12-6709-40e9-91f7-73bf405396e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).