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type: "Bill"
title: "GAMBLING/RIVERBOAT: Provides for a referendum in St. Tammany Parish regarding riverboat gaming (EN SEE FISC NOTE RV See Note)"
description: "GAMBLING/RIVERBOAT: Provides for a referendum in St. Tammany Parish regarding riverboat gaming (EN SEE FISC NOTE RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 702"
citation: "Louisiana HB 702 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mary DuBuisson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-05-05"
last_action: "2021-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2f21fcb-581e-4a2e-9653-5607966bcf12"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240944"
source_hash: "59c55650d5f03f26853b28549cde18890f1b4f2cf8c1eed47e01c368841c4cc2"
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 702 (2021) — GAMBLING/RIVERBOAT: Provides for a referendum in St. Tammany Parish regarding riverboat gaming (EN SEE FISC NOTE RV See Note)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB702 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220974)
2. **HB702 Act 362** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235690)
3. **HB702 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221107)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #2962, Cox, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224817)
5. **HB702 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232986)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#911) — **2314** (pass) · upper
- CALL FROM THE CALENDAR (#463) — **7323** (pass) · lower
- RECOMMIT (#438) — **1715** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#466) — **6328** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Mary DuBuisson — primary (person)
- Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Paul Hollis — cosponsor (person)
- Richard Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Robert "Bob" Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-06-15** Effective date: 06/15/2021.
- **2021-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 362. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 23 yeas and 14 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-06-02** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-26** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2021-05-25** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-20** Rules suspended. The Senate refused to recommitt the bill to the committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs by a vote of 17 yeas and 15 nays.
- **2021-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-13** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 63, nays 28. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-13** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-05-13** Rules suspended.
- **2021-05-12** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2021.
- **2021-05-06** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-05** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 497 reported by the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice (8-2-1).
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2f21fcb-581e-4a2e-9653-5607966bcf12`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).