GAMING: Provides for sports wagering (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2021
Committee Review
May 2021
House Passage
May 2021
Senate Passage
May 2021
Signed into Law
Jun 2021
Introduced Apr 22, 2021
Signed Jun 4, 2021
Floor votes · Senate May 20, 2021 · House May 10, 2021
How they voted
25–3
Passed
Total votes 28
May 20, 2021
D
Democratic10
90% Yea
R
Republican18
88% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
22
Key actions
6
Committee
6
Amendments
1
Jun 4, 2021
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 80.
lower
May 20, 2021
Introduced
Received from the Senate without amendments.
lower
May 20, 2021
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 4 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 18, 2021
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 17, 2021
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
upper
May 12, 2021
Committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.
upper
May 10, 2021
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 78, nays 24. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 29, 2021
Lower · Passed
Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
Apr 26, 2021
Committee
Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
Apr 22, 2021
Lower · Passed
Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 628 reported by the Committee on Ways and Means (16-0).
lower
1 primary · 13 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
John M. Stefanski
RRepublican
Co
Bryan Fontenot
RRepublican
Co
Chad Brown
DDemocratic
Co
Daryl Deshotel
RRepublican
Co
Jeremy LaCombe
RRepublican
Co
Joe Stagni
RRepublican
Co
Joseph A. Marino III
IIndependent
Co
Ken Brass
DDemocratic
Co
Marcus Bryant
DDemocratic
Co
Patrick O. Jefferson
DDemocratic
Co
Paul Hollis
RRepublican
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