republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2019/hb-553.md

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Bill	DISTRICTS/ECONOMIC DEVEL: Provides relative to the Lower Ninth Ward Economic Development District in Orleans Parish	DISTRICTS/ECONOMIC DEVEL: Provides relative to the Lower Ninth Ward Economic Development District in Orleans Parish	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2019	HB 553	Louisiana HB 553 (2019)	bill		enacted	Jimmy Harris	8	19	2	2019-03-29	2019-06-11	openstates	ocd-bill/ac93b4d1-4e17-4f48-acb8-8555241b8468	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236403	41dfc7bdef0ea5e158382c3758a1286e21f69def6ed0a4e0756000b28288eff7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 553 (2019) — DISTRICTS/ECONOMIC DEVEL: Provides relative to the Lower Ninth Ward Economic Development District in Orleans Parish

Version chain

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

1. HB553 Original (filed) — source
2. HB553 Act 322 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB553 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB553 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #2631, MPC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2795, MPC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #3164, Harris, J., Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. HB553 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#507) — 102–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#834) — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jimmy Harris — primary (person)
• Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-06-11 Effective date: 08/01/2019.
• 2019-06-11 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 322. executive-signature
• 2019-06-05 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2019-06-04 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2019-06-03 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2019-06-02 Received from the Senate without amendments.
• 2019-06-02 Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2019-06-02 Rules suspended.
• 2019-05-31 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2019-05-30 Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2019-05-27 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. referral-committee
• 2019-05-23 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2019-05-22 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2019-05-20 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/19.
• 2019-05-20 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2019-05-16 Reported with amendments (14-0).
• 2019-04-22 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. referral-committee
• 2019-04-17 Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
• 2019-03-29 Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ac93b4d1-4e17-4f48-acb8-8555241b8468. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).