republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/sb-85.md

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Bill	BOATS/BOATING: Provides for parishes to designate no-wake zones on state waterways. (8/1/25)	BOATS/BOATING: Provides for parishes to designate no-wake zones on state waterways. (8/1/25)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	SB 85	Louisiana SB 85 (2025)	bill		enacted	William "Bill" Wheat , Jr.	10	25	3	2025-04-02	2025-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/993edfab-d307-4c39-bdda-93a03a09650e	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248241	b6efb202a57448b24504834b95589b25f30e2d2a66bd7ca2afdb290f0ab706e1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 85 (2025) — BOATS/BOATING: Provides for parishes to designate no-wake zones on state waterways. (8/1/25)

Version chain

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

1. SB85 Original (filed) — source
2. House Committee Amendment, #3194, NATR, Draft (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Amendment, #3240, NATR, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. House Floor Amendment, #3573, Coates, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
5. House Floor Amendment, #3927, LaCombe, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. SB85 Act 415 (committee substitute) — source
7. SB85 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Committee Amendment, #1102, NATR, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #962, NATR, Draft (committee substitute) — source
10. SB85 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#160) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#827) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR (#842) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — primary (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-20 Effective date 8/1/2025.
• 2025-06-20 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 415. became-law, executive-signature
• 2025-06-11 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2025-06-10 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2025-06-10 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2025-06-09 Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2025-06-03 Received from the House with amendments. receipt
• 2025-06-03 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-06-03 Called from the calendar.
• 2025-06-03 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2025-06-03 Called from the calendar.
• 2025-06-02 Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2025.
• 2025-06-02 Notice given.
• 2025-06-02 Read by title, amended, returned to the calendar.
• 2025-05-28 Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/2025.
• 2025-05-22 Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-05-21 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2025-05-20 Reported with amendments (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-07 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. referral-committee
• 2025-05-06 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2025-05-06 Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-05-05 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2025-04-30 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 Natural Resources. referral-committee
• 2025-04-02 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/993edfab-d307-4c39-bdda-93a03a09650e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).