---
type: "Bill"
title: "TOURISM: Provides for the levy of hotel assessments in Orleans Parish. (8/1/25)"
description: "TOURISM: Provides for the levy of hotel assessments in Orleans Parish. (8/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 203"
citation: "Louisiana SB 203 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jimmy Harris"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85bc84e9-1e47-4375-a0b9-645362213c56"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248712"
source_hash: "b81c942d9be7cb80a8ed4151777a48c1a35b1eab034c724bf2ed227100cbe2e9"
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 SB 203 (2025) — TOURISM: Provides for the levy of hotel assessments in Orleans Parish. (8/1/25)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB203 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404637)
2. **SB203 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426859)
3. **SB203 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410393)
4. **SB203 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423303)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#983) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#182) — **31–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jimmy Harris — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-01** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-07-01** Becomes Act No. 471 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-10** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-10** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-09** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/09/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Read by title, rules suspended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-06-04** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-07** Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 5 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-05** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-30** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/85bc84e9-1e47-4375-a0b9-645362213c56`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).