---
type: "Bill"
title: "ECONOMIC DEVELOP DEPT: Repeals Port Development Advisory Commission. (7/1/24)"
description: "ECONOMIC DEVELOP DEPT: Repeals Port Development Advisory Commission. (7/1/24)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 206"
citation: "Louisiana SB 206 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick McMath"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a25ba1a-912c-4bbf-be4a-3ec5d26272e8"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246362"
source_hash: "07819c43ee4bc800830c9d2b69db562316091b6490f11ed4aabff8ffb7199acf"
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 206 (2024) — ECONOMIC DEVELOP DEPT: Repeals Port Development Advisory Commission. (7/1/24)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB206 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351912)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #4137, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371481)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4205, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371843)
4. **SB206 Act 312** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380784)
5. **SB206 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354319)
6. **SB206 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355995)
7. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #789, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354467)
8. **SB206 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377219)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1161) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#55) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#1026) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Patrick McMath — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-28** Effective date 7/1/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 312. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-28** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/23/2024. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-22** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-20** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2024.
- **2024-05-08** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-06** Reported with amendments (16-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-21** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-19** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-13** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a25ba1a-912c-4bbf-be4a-3ec5d26272e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).