republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/sb-72.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "BONDS: Provides relative to the issuance of bonds for financing certain capital improvement projects within the Louisiana Community and Technical College System. (2/3-CA7s6(A))(7/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)"
description: "BONDS: Provides relative to the issuance of bonds for financing certain capital improvement projects within the Louisiana Community and Technical College System. (2/3-CA7s6(A))(7/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 72"
citation: "Louisiana SB 72 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Reese"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-02"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d329575f-e0ff-42c5-8378-8d9e9c7cd741"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248228"
source_hash: "a2980945547a26cb8037cf7a51ad5f6f4350af765e9b9b8d1325831c8c3c30e6"
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 72 (2025) — BONDS: Provides relative to the issuance of bonds for financing certain capital improvement projects within the Louisiana Community and Technical College System. (2/3-CA7s6(A))(7/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB72 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1401974)
2. **SB72 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422217)
3. **SB72 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405559)
4. **SB72 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407347)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #455, R&F, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405102)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #481, R&F, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405417)
7. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #638, Reese, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406547)
8. **SB72 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418838)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#680) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#24) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mike Reese — primary (person)
- Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04** Effective date 7/1/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 35. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/30/2025. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-28** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/2025.
- **2025-05-21** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-19** Reported favorably (14-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-24** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-04-22** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-04-16** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-15** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d329575f-e0ff-42c5-8378-8d9e9c7cd741`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).