republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/sb-214.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	ECONOMIC DEVELOP DEPT: Create the office of port development within the Department of Economic Development and create a port development advisory committee. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	ECONOMIC DEVELOP DEPT: Create the office of port development within the Department of Economic Development and create a port development advisory committee. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2023	SB 214	Louisiana SB 214 (2023)	bill		enacted	Patrick McMath	14	24	4	2023-03-31	2023-06-28	openstates	ocd-bill/b7f58795-6cea-409a-80da-34b20c175229	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244638	57870c459bd9bbdad06739067983d2987f5dcddc65dc6fec094bf85920a3b83e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 214 (2023) — ECONOMIC DEVELOP DEPT: Create the office of port development within the Department of Economic Development and create a port development advisory committee. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. SB214 Original (filed) — source
2. House Committee Amendment, #3281, COM, Draft (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Amendment, #3667, COM, Draft (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #3760, COM, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #3924, APP, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #3978, APP, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #4091, Wright, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. SB214 Act (committee substitute) — source
9. SB214 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
10. SB214 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Committee Amendment, #886, COM, Draft (committee substitute) — source
12. Senate Committee Amendment, #960, COM, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
13. Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1332, McMath, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
14. SB214 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#261) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1013) — 103–0 (pass) · lower
• CO-AUTHORS (#262) — 10–0 (fail) · upper
• CONCUR (#944) — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Patrick McMath — primary (person)
• Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
• Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
• Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
• Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
• Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
• Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-28 Effective date: See Act.
• 2023-06-28 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 459. became-law, executive-signature
• 2023-06-08 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2023-06-08 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2023-06-08 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2023-06-07 Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2023-06-06 Received from the House with amendments. receipt
• 2023-06-05 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2023-06-05 Called from the calendar.
• 2023-06-05 Rules suspended.
• 2023-06-05 Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2023-06-04 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2023-06-02 Reported with amendments (17-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-31 Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
• 2023-05-30 Reported with amendments (9-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-11 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. referral-committee
• 2023-05-10 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2023-05-09 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2023-05-02 Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2023-05-02 Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
• 2023-04-27 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
• 2023-04-26 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-10 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
• 2023-03-31 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; origin ocd-bill/b7f58795-6cea-409a-80da-34b20c175229. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).