republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/sb-195.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Provides for the French Quarter Management District. (8/1/25)"
description: "SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Provides for the French Quarter Management District. (8/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 195"
citation: "Louisiana SB 195 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jimmy Harris"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/329ea5c5-9b69-49fd-a936-25a9b3915c5c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248704"
source_hash: "a99d765bb7ecab6ebd5bf3c710256d53b33410c76ab93d9c83567a9906dc98b8"
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 195 (2025) — SPECIAL DISTRICTS: Provides for the French Quarter Management District. (8/1/25)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB195 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404617)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #3197, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424797)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4010, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421058)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #4096, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421960)
5. **SB195 Act 445** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426053)
6. **SB195 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410464)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1116, L&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410382)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #960, L&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409012)
9. **SB195 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425153)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#181) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#982) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1253) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#964) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- REJECT (#897) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jimmy Harris — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — 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. 445. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-12** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/13/2025. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-13** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-12** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/13/2025. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-12** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2025-06-12** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2025-06-12** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 102, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2025-06-12** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/12/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2025-06-11** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2025-06-11** House conferees appointed: Knox, Gadberry, and Willard.
- **2025-06-11** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2025-06-10** Senate conference committee members appointed: Harris, Bouie, and Connick.
- **2025-06-10** Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments.
- **2025-06-10** Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-09** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/09/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended.
- **2025-06-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-06-04** Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-07** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 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 Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal 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/329ea5c5-9b69-49fd-a936-25a9b3915c5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).