HIGHWAYS/INTERSTATE: Designates the bridge on Louisiana Highway 648 over Bayou Lafourche as the "Austin Bush Memorial Bridge"
This bill designates the bridge on Louisiana Highway 648 over Bayou Lafourche as the "Austin Bush Memorial Bridge." The legislation directly affects the specific roadway infrastructure by officially naming it in honor of Austin Bush. It achieves this through a simple text amendment that updates the bill's language to include the new name. Once enacted, the change will appear on official state maps and signage for that bridge.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2024
Committee Review
Apr 2024
House Passage
Mar 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
May 2024
Introduced Mar 1, 2024
Signed May 15, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 7, 2024 · House Mar 18, 2024
How they voted
35–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 37
May 7, 2024
D
Democratic12
100% Yea
R
Republican25
92% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
19
Key actions
4
Committee
5
May 7, 2024
Upper · Passed
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.
upper
Apr 22, 2024
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
Apr 17, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Mar 18, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 104, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Mar 12, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (13-0).
lower
Mar 11, 2024
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.
lower
Mar 1, 2024
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.
lower
1 primary · 15 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Jerome Zeringue
RRepublican
Co
BA
Beryl Amedée
RRepublican
Co
Beth Billings
RRepublican
Co
Bryan Fontenot
RRepublican
Co
Chuck Owen
RRepublican
Co
Francis Thompson
RRepublican
Co
Jason DeWitt
RRepublican
Co
Jessica Domangue
RRepublican
Co
John Illg
RRepublican
Co
Kyle Green
DDemocratic
Co
Mike Bayham
RRepublican
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