---
type: "Bill"
title: "DISTRICTS/SPECIAL: Provides relative to the boundaries of the New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority Economic Growth and Development District"
description: "DISTRICTS/SPECIAL: Provides relative to the boundaries of the New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority Economic Growth and Development District"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 562"
citation: "Louisiana HB 562 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alonzo Knox"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ecc894c-d13a-400a-8414-6b661e038dc1"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246320"
source_hash: "94da95a8eed2c29604e1cf7995b1ca79326249b22f5f3db8bed186b66c743584"
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 562 (2024) — DISTRICTS/SPECIAL: Provides relative to the boundaries of the New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority Economic Growth and Development District

## Version chain

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

1. **HB562 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351676)
2. **HB562 Act 709** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382731)
3. **HB562 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362813)
4. **HB562 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380325)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#452) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1326) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Alonzo Knox — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 06/19/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 709. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-29** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-23** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-11** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/11/2024.
- **2024-04-09** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-08** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ecc894c-d13a-400a-8414-6b661e038dc1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).