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type: "Bill"
title: "TAX/LOCAL: Authorizes the city of Denham Springs to levy a hotel occupancy tax."
description: "TAX/LOCAL: Authorizes the city of Denham Springs to levy a hotel occupancy tax."
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 225"
citation: "Louisiana SB 225 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Rogers Pope"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 25
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-04-18"
last_action: "2023-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/009d2003-8942-4c8e-bf7b-58d5efe25132"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244798"
source_hash: "130d54d12994786eabc7d7d83974ec7429d7385ec7d33fe02bae5d9066802a0c"
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 225 (2023) — TAX/LOCAL: Authorizes the city of Denham Springs to levy a hotel occupancy tax.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SB225 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312962)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3229, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323931)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3724, W&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327112)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #3920, Beaullieu, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328692)
5. **SB225 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332336)
6. **SB225 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316801)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1037, L&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316778)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #943, L&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316111)
9. **SB225 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331002)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#290) — **360** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#979) — **8015** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 3920 BY BEAULLIEU, MOTION TO ADOPT (#978) — **1979** (fail) · lower
- CONCUR (#919) — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- J. Rogers Pope — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-06-09** Effective date 6/9/2023.
- **2023-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 248. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 80, nays 15. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
- **2023-06-01** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-30** Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-22** Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means.
- **2023-05-18** Reported with amendments (11-1). To be recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-15** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-11** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-11** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-10** Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-10** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2023-05-09** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.
- **2023-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-02** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2023-05-01** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-18** Introduced in the Senate. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/009d2003-8942-4c8e-bf7b-58d5efe25132`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).