---
type: "Bill"
title: "HORSE RACING: Provides relative to horse racing. (gov sig)"
description: "HORSE RACING: Provides relative to horse racing. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 144"
citation: "Louisiana SB 144 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick Page Cortez"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d51d0d08-ff11-45aa-b154-b8ea72b2c0ba"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244436"
source_hash: "7d231d10274f6a771f105daca298ea7ef6e1f80c6069e13e07abd01f67dcc702"
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 144 (2023) — HORSE RACING: Provides relative to horse racing. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB144 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309223)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #3878, Davis, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328236)
3. **SB144 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332358)
4. **SB144 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317997)
5. **SB144 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322274)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1168, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317838)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1195, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317959)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1667, Cortez, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321894)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1717, Mills, Robert, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321931)
10. **SB144 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329449)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#303) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#668) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#877) — **99–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Patrick Page Cortez — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-12** Effective date 6/12/2023.
- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 258. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-01** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-01** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 1. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-31** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/01/2023.
- **2023-05-24** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-22** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-17** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-16** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-15** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-03** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-05-02** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d51d0d08-ff11-45aa-b154-b8ea72b2c0ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).