---
type: "Bill"
title: "SEWERAGE/N O WATER BD: Provides relative to billing for services provided by the sewerage and water board of New Orleans"
description: "SEWERAGE/N O WATER BD: Provides relative to billing for services provided by the sewerage and water board of New Orleans"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 965"
citation: "Louisiana HB 965 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephanie Hilferty"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-09"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6bf17f19-5b20-4d82-a158-39d1cabb1d10"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247250"
source_hash: "7148b4356f755bd44ba532b39cd32f68c2368c71f3209ee2df419ea7c3fbee50"
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 965 (2024) — SEWERAGE/N O WATER BD: Provides relative to billing for services provided by the sewerage and water board of New Orleans

## Version chain

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

1. **HB965 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363486)
2. **HB965 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380546)
3. **HB965 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363594)
4. **HB965 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366117)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2931, Hilferty, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365198)
6. **HB965 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375884)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#517) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#936) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stephanie Hilferty — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Braud — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Shaun Mena — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-28** Effective date: 05/28/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 393. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-22** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-06** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-01** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-16** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/16/2024.
- **2024-04-10** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-09** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 574 reported by the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs (11-0).

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6bf17f19-5b20-4d82-a158-39d1cabb1d10`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).