---
type: "Bill"
title: "DISTRICTS/COMMUNICATIONS: Provides relative to the membership of the board of commissioners for the East Baton Rouge Parish Communications District"
description: "DISTRICTS/COMMUNICATIONS: Provides relative to the membership of the board of commissioners for the East Baton Rouge Parish Communications District"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 242"
citation: "Louisiana HB 242 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Emily Chenevert"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-01"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d90fb61-9e6e-4e93-80a5-717713a1a611"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248170"
source_hash: "28a36aaa1b4d1ec9419507026c175a91d21ee655a9b8f9969be0ffb0c72ed4d9"
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 242 (2025) — DISTRICTS/COMMUNICATIONS: Provides relative to the membership of the board of commissioners for the East Baton Rouge Parish Communications District

## Version chain

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

1. **HB242 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400955)
2. **HB242 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425085)
3. **HB242 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415477)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2992, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415455)
5. **HB242 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420704)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#578) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#520) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Emily Chenevert — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 165. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 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** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-29** Reported favorably. `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 94, nays 0. 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`
- **2025-04-23** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-22** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
- **2025-04-14** Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date. `filing`
- **2025-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d90fb61-9e6e-4e93-80a5-717713a1a611`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).