---
type: "Bill"
title: "WATERWAYS: Removes the designated deadline the board of the Amite River Basin Drainage and Water Conservation District has to promulgate regulations for watershed management within the district"
description: "WATERWAYS: Removes the designated deadline the board of the Amite River Basin Drainage and Water Conservation District has to promulgate regulations for watershed management within the district"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 165"
citation: "Louisiana HB 165 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kathy Edmonston"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-31"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/60b853dd-4199-4e29-85ec-970e0430ff75"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248075"
source_hash: "5d5d672a31b25ea68dc445348b22edfe579c235157725787dfeb1e51645b7898"
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 165 (2025) — WATERWAYS: Removes the designated deadline the board of the Amite River Basin Drainage and Water Conservation District has to promulgate regulations for watershed management within the district

## Version chain

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

1. **HB165 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400238)
2. **HB165 Act 247** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425555)
3. **HB165 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414716)
4. **HB165 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422875)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#692) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#548) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kathy Edmonston — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 247. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-08** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-21** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2025.
- **2025-05-20** Notice given.
- **2025-05-20** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-05-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.
- **2025-05-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-14** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/60b853dd-4199-4e29-85ec-970e0430ff75`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).