republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/sb-70.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	SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Authorizes the creation of cooperative economic development districts affiliated with Southern University and Louisiana State University in East Baton Rouge Parish. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)	SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Authorizes the creation of cooperative economic development districts affiliated with Southern University and Louisiana State University in East Baton Rouge Parish. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2023	SB 70	Louisiana SB 70 (2023)	bill		enacted	Cleo Fields	13	19	3	2023-03-28	2023-06-08	openstates	ocd-bill/21326365-6825-4a55-b64c-92ec6e1f42e8	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244177	b6fdb1af938273d62fc6c6c81a8e5e9ec552523d756d1465ea83075bb3cd52f3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 70 (2023) — SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Authorizes the creation of cooperative economic development districts affiliated with Southern University and Louisiana State University in East Baton Rouge Parish. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)

Version chain

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

1. SB70 Original (filed) — source
2. House Committee Amendment, #3193, MPC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House Floor Amendment, #3860, Edmonds, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1970, BUREAU, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
5. SB70 Act (committee substitute) — source
6. SB70 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
7. SB70 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Committee Amendment, #1005, L&M, Draft (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #1039, L&M, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Floor Amendment, #1521, Fields, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1255, Fields, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1446, Mills, Fred, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
13. SB70 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR (#662) — 35–4 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#857) — 85–5 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#256) — 31–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cleo Fields — primary (person)
• Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
• C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
• C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
• Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
• Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
• Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-08 Effective date 6/8/2023.
• 2023-06-08 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 203. became-law, executive-signature
• 2023-06-06 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2023-06-05 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2023-06-05 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2023-06-04 Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 4 nays.
• 2023-06-01 Received from the House with amendments. receipt
• 2023-06-01 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 85, nays 5. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2023-05-31 Scheduled for floor debate on 06/01/2023.
• 2023-05-23 Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2023-05-22 Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2023-05-18 Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-11 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. 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 31 yeas and 5 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2023-05-02 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2023-05-01 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 Local and Municipal Affairs referral-committee
• 2023-03-28 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/21326365-6825-4a55-b64c-92ec6e1f42e8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).