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Bill	PORTS/HARBORS/TERMINALS: Creates the Louisiana Ports and Waterways Investment Commission (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)	PORTS/HARBORS/TERMINALS: Creates the Louisiana Ports and Waterways Investment Commission (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 971	Louisiana HB 971 (2024)	bill		enacted	Mark Wright	12	34	5	2024-04-23	2024-06-19	openstates	ocd-bill/6891b3ae-168d-4b42-8e87-b53e95da8036	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247359	cf3f42b4daa5b1a6bd505a79a01a34db115bf96bacc949412e30a04829d62e07	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 971 (2024) — PORTS/HARBORS/TERMINALS: Creates the Louisiana Ports and Waterways Investment Commission (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Version chain

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

1. HB971 Original (filed) — source
2. Conference Committee Report, #5276, House Adopted, Senate Adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. HB971 Act 755 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB971 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. HB971 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. House Floor Amendment, #4069, Wright, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2438, Horton, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Committee Amendment, #3509, THPW, Draft (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #3510, THPW, Draft (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Committee Amendment, #3668, THPW, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3774, BUREAU, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. HB971 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#1123) — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1716) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1557) — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#842) — 94–2 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT (#1460) — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mark Wright — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-19 Effective date: 08/01/2024.
• 2024-06-19 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 755. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-06-05 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-06-03 Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/4/2024.
• 2024-06-03 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-06-03 Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
• 2024-06-03 Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2024-05-31 Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
• 2024-05-31 Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
• 2024-05-31 Rules suspended.
• 2024-05-31 Conference committee report received.
• 2024-05-31 Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
• 2024-05-30 Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
• 2024-05-29 Senate conference committee members appointed: Abraham, Connick, and McMath.
• 2024-05-29 Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
• 2024-05-29 Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
• 2024-05-29 House conferees appointed: Wright, Bourriaque, and Braud.
• 2024-05-29 Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
• 2024-05-22 Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
• 2024-05-22 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-22 Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-20 Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-16 Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-05-15 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-07 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-05-06 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-05-01 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-05-01 Called from the calendar.
• 2024-04-30 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/01/2024.
• 2024-04-30 Notice given.
• 2024-04-30 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2024-04-29 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/2024.
• 2024-04-24 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-23 Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 685 reported by the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works (11-0).

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6891b3ae-168d-4b42-8e87-b53e95da8036. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).