--- type: "Bill" title: "DISTRICTS/RECREATION: Provides relative to the Recreation and Park Commission for the parish of East Baton Rouge and the Capital Area Transit System" description: "DISTRICTS/RECREATION: Provides relative to the Recreation and Park Commission for the parish of East Baton Rouge and the Capital Area Transit System" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2025" identifier: "HB 649" citation: "Louisiana HB 649 (2025)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Lauren Ventrella"] version_count: 9 action_count: 31 vote_count: 5 first_action: "2025-04-22" last_action: "2025-06-20" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/375dea73-a7c0-47d2-a6ec-929f8b52087d" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248878" source_hash: "cfa185499587674668c73a6e78b0a3763ca1f355b060e8278b33e31a1d884ada" 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 649 (2025) — DISTRICTS/RECREATION: Provides relative to the Recreation and Park Commission for the parish of East Baton Rouge and the Capital Area Transit System ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB649 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407007) 2. **Conference Committee Report, #4413, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424823) 3. **HB649 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426015) 4. **HB649 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410238) 5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2536, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419878) 6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2852, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421624) 7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2959, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422251) 8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3087, Reese, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422661) 9. **HB649 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425256) ## Votes - ADOPT (#1003) — **36–0** (pass) · upper - FINAL PASSAGE (#736) — **39–0** (pass) · upper - ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1272) — **89–4** (pass) · lower - REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1018) — **96–1** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#276) — **67–24** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Lauren Ventrella — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-06-20** Effective date: 06/20/2025. - **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 391. `became-law, executive-signature` - **2025-06-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt` - **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate. - **2025-06-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled` - **2025-06-12** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report. - **2025-06-12** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays. - **2025-06-12** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report. - **2025-06-12** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 89, nays 4. The Conference Committee Report was adopted. - **2025-06-12** Rules suspended. - **2025-06-12** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules. - **2025-06-11** Notice of Senate conferees appointed. - **2025-06-10** Senate conference committee members appointed: Edmonds, Foil, and Reese. - **2025-06-10** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed. - **2025-06-10** House conferees appointed: Ventrella, Gadberry, and Davis. - **2025-06-09** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments. - **2025-06-09** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 1, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending. - **2025-06-08** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/09/2025. - **2025-06-08** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt` - **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 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 with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-05-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee` - **2025-05-08** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1` - **2025-05-07** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 67, nays 24. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2025-05-07** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order. - **2025-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/2025. - **2025-05-05** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2025-04-30** Reported favorably (10-5). `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. ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/375dea73-a7c0-47d2-a6ec-929f8b52087d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).