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---
type: "Bill"
title: "DISTRICTS/ECONOMIC DEVEL: Provides for a Lafitte Greenway Economic Development District"
description: "DISTRICTS/ECONOMIC DEVEL: Provides for a Lafitte Greenway Economic Development District"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 561"
citation: "Louisiana HB 561 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alonzo Knox"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79ba4ce9-40b3-4318-b0fe-dfd6508e565a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246319"
source_hash: "1b2eeaad8ab5992e8ba4252289c45444117494f87108bfa100a7846e61f33d26"
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 HB 561 (2024) — DISTRICTS/ECONOMIC DEVEL: Provides for a Lafitte Greenway Economic Development District
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB561 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351686)
2. **HB561 Act 708** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382730)
3. **HB561 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367052)
4. **HB561 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369972)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3484, Knox, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367675)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3753, Harris, Jimmy, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375433)
7. **HB561 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381090)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1365) — **352** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1694) — **925** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#735) — **8116** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Alonzo Knox — 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. 708. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 5, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/2024.
- **2024-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-30** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-30** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-23** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-01** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-30** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-29** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 81, nays 16. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2024.
- **2024-04-22** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-18** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79ba4ce9-40b3-4318-b0fe-dfd6508e565a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).