---
type: "Bill"
title: "TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Authorizes the Port of New Orleans to utilize public private partnerships for the St. Bernard Transportation Corridor roadway project (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)"
description: "TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Authorizes the Port of New Orleans to utilize public private partnerships for the St. Bernard Transportation Corridor roadway project (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 687"
citation: "Louisiana HB 687 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Wright"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-05-13"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37cde0ee-434a-46e9-9598-3f5ecc83a1c3"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=249155"
source_hash: "e25d09b1c98c60f92ce0500afd0f97422e54a0dfa35768f9c1b6f8f2190ba169"
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 687 (2025) — TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Authorizes the Port of New Orleans to utilize public private partnerships for the St. Bernard Transportation Corridor roadway project (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB687 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413844)
2. **HB687 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425149)
3. **HB687 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413922)
4. **HB687 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416187)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2967, Wright, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415293)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #3143, Bayham, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415931)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2421, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419217)
8. **HB687 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421694)

## Votes

- AMENDMENT # 3143 BY BAYHAM, MOTION TO ADOPT (#460) — **25–62** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#461) — **75–21** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#649) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mark Wright — primary (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Shaun Mena — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (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. 217. `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.
- **2025-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-03** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 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`
- **2025-05-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-20** 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, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 75, nays 21. 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-13** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 616 reported by the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works (10-3).

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/37cde0ee-434a-46e9-9598-3f5ecc83a1c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).