---
type: "Bill"
title: "ECONOMIC DEVELOP DEPT: Provides relative to Louisiana Economic Development. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)"
description: "ECONOMIC DEVELOP DEPT: Provides relative to Louisiana Economic Development. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 161"
citation: "Louisiana SB 161 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beth Mizell"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 27
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f36edaf-96e4-4c3f-91a1-1fec629d4c02"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248578"
source_hash: "84e5f19266a441f19d55602f4ef7d681f3509f511fcc4846abc86742546254bb"
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 161 (2025) — ECONOMIC DEVELOP DEPT: Provides relative to Louisiana Economic Development. (8/1/25) (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. **SB161 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404196)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3371, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417430)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3427, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417726)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3483, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418189)
5. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2667, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420708)
6. **SB161 Act 432** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426032)
7. **SB161 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407656)
8. **SB161 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410626)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #672, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406803)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #803, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407570)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #810, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407594)
12. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1127, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410343)
13. **SB161 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424191)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#988) — **100–2** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#893) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#133) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beth Mizell — primary (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Connick — 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. 432. `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, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 2. 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 favorably (17-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-28** Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2025-05-27** Reported with amendments (14-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-06** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-05** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-04-30** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-04-29** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-04-28** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-23** 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 Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International 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/7f36edaf-96e4-4c3f-91a1-1fec629d4c02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).