---
type: "Bill"
title: "HORSE RACING: Provides relative to the powers and duties of the Louisiana Racing Commission. (7/1/23)"
description: "HORSE RACING: Provides relative to the powers and duties of the Louisiana Racing Commission. (7/1/23)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 160"
citation: "Louisiana SB 160 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick Page Cortez"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f494a1a-4ad4-4d16-a8ab-a19903596160"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244518"
source_hash: "39d49518933f2b16bf08b58a333d6e57412e2f4c0f4fcbd510649e0d5db2ccbf"
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 160 (2023) — HORSE RACING: Provides relative to the powers and duties of the Louisiana Racing Commission. (7/1/23)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB160 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309679)
2. **SB160 Act 103** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331771)
3. **SB160 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315507)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #818, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315175)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #860, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315472)
6. **SB160 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327492)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#753) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#148) — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Patrick Page Cortez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-06** Effective date 7/1/2023.
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 103. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-31** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-05-31** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-30** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, 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 (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-01** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-27** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-04-27** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-04-25** 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/9f494a1a-4ad4-4d16-a8ab-a19903596160`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).