---
type: "Bill"
title: "WATER/SEWER OPERATORS: Provides relative to receivership of water or wastewater companies (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "WATER/SEWER OPERATORS: Provides relative to receivership of water or wastewater companies (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 257"
citation: "Louisiana HB 257 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vincent J. St. Blanc , III"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-01"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d21fc3ee-043e-4b60-98ea-a9b3acb107ed"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248188"
source_hash: "bbec1716eb4c58208b997067dac9ee10218d3e5f0510ffb93ac9a2fa543623e7"
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 257 (2025) — WATER/SEWER OPERATORS: Provides relative to receivership of water or wastewater companies (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB257 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1401325)
2. **HB257 Act 257** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425566)
3. **HB257 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414286)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2682, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413666)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2720, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414030)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2752, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414258)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2639, Allain, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420570)
8. **HB257 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423497)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#614) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#442) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1024) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — 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. 257. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-09** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-09** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-04** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/09/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Notice given.
- **2025-06-04** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-03** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 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`
- **2025-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-19** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2025.
- **2025-05-14** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-13** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `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/d21fc3ee-043e-4b60-98ea-a9b3acb107ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).