---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHWAYS: Designates a portion of the U.S. Hwy. 165 in Caldwell Parish as the \"SPC Torey Jonteal Dantzler, Sr. Memorial Highway\""
description: "HIGHWAYS: Designates a portion of the U.S. Hwy. 165 in Caldwell Parish as the \"SPC Torey Jonteal Dantzler, Sr. Memorial Highway\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 444"
citation: "Louisiana HB 444 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Neil Riser"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-03"
last_action: "2022-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/99d09796-bd1c-4545-828c-2a613ecc200d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242169"
source_hash: "78b26a453e5e3c2059402d3c21d8e0e004c2760f81e9e61328151e9dc138ef08"
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 444 (2022) — HIGHWAYS: Designates a portion of the U.S. Hwy. 165 in Caldwell Parish as the "SPC Torey Jonteal Dantzler, Sr. Memorial Highway"

## Version chain

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

1. **HB444 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1255419)
2. **HB444 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280955)
3. **HB444 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259652)
4. **HB444 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278461)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#549) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#37) — **87–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Neil Riser — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-17** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 48. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-11** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-09** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-04** Reported favorably.
- **2022-03-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-22** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-03-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-03-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/22/2022.
- **2022-03-17** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-16** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-03-03** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/99d09796-bd1c-4545-828c-2a613ecc200d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).