---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC TRANSPORT/MASS TR: Provides relative to the board of commissioners for the Capital Area Transit System"
description: "PUBLIC TRANSPORT/MASS TR: Provides relative to the board of commissioners for the Capital Area Transit System"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 179"
citation: "Louisiana HB 179 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Denise Marcelle"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-31"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f31047d4-2cbe-4536-83db-602ee9897a1f"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248100"
source_hash: "9d3550ebfab3f15da0bde971c82d53d3e665ef7234489ac8f787940092c13336"
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 179 (2025) — PUBLIC TRANSPORT/MASS TR: Provides relative to the board of commissioners for the Capital Area Transit System

## Version chain

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

1. **HB179 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400405)
2. **HB179 Act 487** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1427675)
3. **HB179 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415492)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1440, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407480)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3005, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415484)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2409, L&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419161)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2420, L&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419292)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2436, L&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419274)
9. **HB179 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421966)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#574) — **32–7** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#518) — **67–19** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#873) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- C. Denise Marcelle — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-01** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-07-01** Becomes Act No. 487 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-04** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-03** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 7 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-01** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-29** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `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 67, nays 19. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2025.
- **2025-05-20** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-19** Reported with amendments (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `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/f31047d4-2cbe-4536-83db-602ee9897a1f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).