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Louisiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 165: WATERWAYS: Removes the designated deadline the board of the Amite River Basin Drainage and Water Conservation District has to promulgate regulations for watershed management within the district

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 165 is a bill introduced in the Louisiana House on March 31, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: WATERWAYS: Removes the designated deadline the board of the Amite River Basin Drainage and Water Conservation District has to promulgate regulations for watershed management within the district. Primary sponsor: Kathy Edmonston (Republican). Most recent recorded action (June 11, 2025): Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 247.

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Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Kathy EdmonstonPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse88

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 247.
  2. Effective date: 08/01/2025.
  3. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
  4. Signed by the President of the Senate.
  5. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
  6. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.
  8. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
  9. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
  10. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.
  11. Called from the calendar.
  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

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Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source