republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/sb-59.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE: Provides for fiscal and economic impact statements under the Administrative Procedure Act. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
description: "ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE: Provides for fiscal and economic impact statements under the Administrative Procedure Act. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 59"
citation: "Louisiana SB 59 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Reese"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-02"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f6df9d4-487e-404b-a8c2-e2e2561590ac"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248215"
source_hash: "68842bb4cb288433e5bf62ef7b9167b1b124727efc267087869711f9804de609"
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 59 (2025) — ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE: Provides for fiscal and economic impact statements under the Administrative Procedure Act. (8/1/25) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB59 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1401946)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3080, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415793)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3232, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416633)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #3706, Billings, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419232)
5. **SB59 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424919)
6. **SB59 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407781)
7. **SB59 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413082)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #779, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407463)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #805, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407569)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1173, Reese, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411668)
11. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #997, Reese, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409554)
12. **SB59 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421333)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#203) — **29–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#629) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#745) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mike Reese — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 98. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/5/2025. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-04** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-03** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-02** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **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 (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-13** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-12** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-08** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-08** Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-04-29** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-04-28** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-23** 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 Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental 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/7f6df9d4-487e-404b-a8c2-e2e2561590ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).