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type: "Bill"
title: "DRONES/UNMANNED VEHICLES: Provides for personal delivery devices. (gov sig)"
description: "DRONES/UNMANNED VEHICLES: Provides for personal delivery devices. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 147"
citation: "Louisiana SB 147 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rick Ward, III"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-31"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e73fba1-5565-4f0f-8017-1f8bfef5c552"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240280"
source_hash: "c72fdee06dff796d6afc7ead86892b96fa4d9ae20f0e91cc2a0e72036ab1961c"
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 147 (2021) — DRONES/UNMANNED VEHICLES: Provides for personal delivery devices. (gov sig)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SB147 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210468)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3024, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225219)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3087, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225491)
4. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2197, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225571)
5. **SB147 Act 214** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235351)
6. **SB147 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216011)
7. **SB147 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220677)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1551, Ward, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220467)
9. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1145, Ward, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217836)
10. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1149, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217841)
11. **SB147 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230539)
## Votes
- CONCUR (#651) — **341** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#786) — **1010** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#244) — **350** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Rick Ward, III — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-06-11** Effective date 6/11/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 214. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/4/2021. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-02** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 34 yeas and 1 nays.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/2021.
- **2021-05-19** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-18** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-17** Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-06** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-05-04** 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`
- **2021-05-04** Called from the Calendar.
- **2021-05-03** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2021-04-26** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-04-21** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `filing, referral-committee`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7e73fba1-5565-4f0f-8017-1f8bfef5c552`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).