HIGHWAYS: Designates the bridge located on Interstate 55 service road in Manchac between Lake Maurepas and Lake Pontchartrain as the "Robert E. Mayers, Jr. Memorial Bridge"
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2023
Committee Review
May 2023
House Passage
Apr 2023
Senate Passage
May 2023
Signed into Law
Jun 2023
Introduced Feb 28, 2023
Signed Jun 6, 2023
Floor votes · Senate May 26, 2023 · House Apr 17, 2023
How they voted
29–0
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 32
May 26, 2023
D
Democratic10
80% Yea
R
Republican22
95% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
20
Key actions
4
Committee
5
May 26, 2023
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 22, 2023
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 18, 2023
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 17, 2023
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 11, 2023
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (14-0).
lower
Apr 10, 2023
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.
lower
Feb 28, 2023
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
William "Bill" Wheat Jr.
RRepublican
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