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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Provides relative to the governance of fire protection districts created by Pointe Coupee Parish. (gov sig)"
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description: "SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Provides relative to the governance of fire protection districts created by Pointe Coupee Parish. (gov sig)"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
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legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
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session: "2021"
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identifier: "SB 79"
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citation: "Louisiana SB 79 (2021)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Rick Ward, III"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 18
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2021-03-25"
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last_action: "2021-06-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50a46b65-c3d0-4087-9f53-400425df6b3f"
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source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240054"
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source_hash: "95aa6e11b9d6226d6c4fe628f607e163664e2bae43bf77e08ef239a55dfb7fa6"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
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---
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# Louisiana SB 79 (2021) — SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Provides relative to the governance of fire protection districts created by Pointe Coupee Parish. (gov sig)
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **SB79 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1206921)
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2. **SB79 Act 42** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230689)
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3. **SB79 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214026)
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4. **SB79 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227201)
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## Votes
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#548) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#61) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Rick Ward, III — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-06-01** Effective date 6/1/2021.
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- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 42. `executive-signature`
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- **2021-05-27** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/25/2021. `executive-receipt`
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- **2021-05-24** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
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- **2021-05-24** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
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- **2021-05-24** Received from the House without amendments.
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- **2021-05-19** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
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- **2021-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2021.
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- **2021-05-11** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
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- **2021-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
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- **2021-05-06** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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- **2021-04-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
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- **2021-04-21** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
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- **2021-04-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
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- **2021-04-19** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
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- **2021-04-14** Reported favorably.
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- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
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- **2021-03-25** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/50a46b65-c3d0-4087-9f53-400425df6b3f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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