---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC CONTRACT/BIDS: Provides relative to the financing structure for public works projects in Ascension Parish"
description: "PUBLIC CONTRACT/BIDS: Provides relative to the financing structure for public works projects in Ascension Parish"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 209"
citation: "Louisiana HB 209 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ken Brass"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-01"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a8dd2ee1-81d4-4c3e-a1d4-07ecc523dbb2"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248136"
source_hash: "26600c0a71bf52bed6e62c4e17712fdf0713ed1c0fb8a6865ce77a3efddf2bd6"
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 209 (2025) — PUBLIC CONTRACT/BIDS: Provides relative to the financing structure for public works projects in Ascension Parish

## Version chain

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

1. **HB209 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400851)
2. **HB209 Act 254** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425562)
3. **HB209 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407160)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1362, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406522)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1459, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407017)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1720, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414684)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1763, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414819)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2426, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419224)
9. **HB209 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422136)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#66) — **71–19** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#875) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#576) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ken Brass — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 254. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-04** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-03** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 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** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-29** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-30** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-29** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 71, nays 19. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2025.
- **2025-04-23** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-22** Reported with amendments (10-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a8dd2ee1-81d4-4c3e-a1d4-07ecc523dbb2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).