---
type: "Bill"
title: "FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides for Megaprojects Leverage Fund investments. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)"
description: "FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides for Megaprojects Leverage Fund investments. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 146"
citation: "Louisiana SB 146 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick Page Cortez"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 31
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf85f7b8-9490-4dfb-9b57-559687d4bb2d"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244438"
source_hash: "33588b7838a0b054fb4095b622881b1721decc9004d0e6ff632ac26a32684760"
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 146 (2023) — FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides for Megaprojects Leverage Fund investments. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB146 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309228)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #2972, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331354)
3. **House Floor Amendment, #3681, Bishop, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326839)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #3759, Gadberry, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327161)
5. **SB146 Act 327** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332545)
6. **SB146 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316312)
7. **SB146 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331923)

## Votes

- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1216) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#752) — **105–0** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 3759 BY GADBERRY, MOTION TO ADOPT (#751) — **32–65** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#159) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- REJECT (#678) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT (#1017) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Patrick Page Cortez — primary (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. 327. `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** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2023-06-08** Rules suspended.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee report received.
- **2023-06-07** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2023-06-07** House conferees appointed: Bishop, Zeringue, and Coussan.
- **2023-06-07** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2023-06-06** Senate conference committee members appointed: Cortez, McMath, and Morris.
- **2023-06-04** Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments.
- **2023-06-04** Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-04** Called from the Calendar.
- **2023-05-31** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2023-05-30** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 105, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/30/2023.
- **2023-05-17** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-15** Reported favorably (19-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-02** sb182
- **2023-05-01** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-04-27** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-04-26** 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 Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Finance. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf85f7b8-9490-4dfb-9b57-559687d4bb2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).