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---
type: "Bill"
title: "WATERWAYS: Extends the period for which the Comite River is exempt from certain provisions of the Louisiana Scenic Rivers Act"
description: "WATERWAYS: Extends the period for which the Comite River is exempt from certain provisions of the Louisiana Scenic Rivers Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 172"
citation: "Louisiana HB 172 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kathy Edmonston"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-31"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7abb05c2-4009-46d6-9940-7cf6f5eecf73"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248082"
source_hash: "7b5a2d3dd852f39fdda1ae4b324f981afa2c3040b45c3663f953517eacff3d4b"
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 172 (2025) — WATERWAYS: Extends the period for which the Comite River is exempt from certain provisions of the Louisiana Scenic Rivers Act
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB172 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400245)
2. **HB172 Act 249** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425557)
3. **HB172 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414740)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2422, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419221)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2437, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419310)
6. **HB172 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422137)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#572) — **350** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#872) — **960** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#549) — **910** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Kathy Edmonston — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 249. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-04** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-03** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** 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`
- **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-01** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-29** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-21** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2025.
- **2025-05-20** Notice given.
- **2025-05-20** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-05-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.
- **2025-05-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-14** Reported favorably (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7abb05c2-4009-46d6-9940-7cf6f5eecf73`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).