---
type: "Bill"
title: "FLOODS/FLOODING: Creates the Coordinated Use of Resources for Recreation, Economy, Navigation, and Transportation Authority. (8/1/25) (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)"
description: "FLOODS/FLOODING: Creates the Coordinated Use of Resources for Recreation, Economy, Navigation, and Transportation Authority. (8/1/25) (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 97"
citation: "Louisiana SB 97 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas Pressly"]
version_count: 14
action_count: 27
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-04-03"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72a641ce-2547-4aae-9c9b-bd7c87606fb2"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248336"
source_hash: "e2e29406f27f0b76d572b0fa6a03a7fd415870935784fecd792f230c785a0b0a"
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 97 (2025) — FLOODS/FLOODING: Creates the Coordinated Use of Resources for Recreation, Economy, Navigation, and Transportation Authority. (8/1/25) (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB97 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402780)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3787, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419752)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3829, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420061)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3872, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420282)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #4193, McFarland, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422600)
6. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2669, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420710)
7. **SB97 Act 418** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425984)
8. **SB97 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410495)
9. **SB97 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416201)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1104, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410412)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #961, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409047)
12. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1930, Cathey, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416122)
13. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1938, Pressly, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416143)
14. **SB97 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424164)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#271) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#884) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#987) — **101–1** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#272) — **6–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Thomas Pressly — primary (person)
- Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 418. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-11** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-10** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-09** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 1. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-09** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/09/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Notice given.
- **2025-06-08** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/08/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-06-02** Reported with amendments (19-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-28** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2025-05-27** Reported favorably (8-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-21** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-20** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-19** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-14** Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-14** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2025-05-05** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2025-04-30** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/72a641ce-2547-4aae-9c9b-bd7c87606fb2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).