2025 Regular Session • Louisiana Legislature
HB299
Legislative Summary
Increases the maximum rate of ad valorem taxes the governing authority of Morehouse Parish is authorized to levy for public cemeteries and provides for the use of the proceeds of the taxes
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Bill History
4/2/2025
Prefiled.
House of Representatives
4/2/2025
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.
House of Representatives
4/14/2025
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.
House of Representatives
5/22/2025
Reported favorably (10-0).
House of Representatives
5/27/2025
Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
House of Representatives
5/27/2025
Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/2025.
House of Representatives
5/28/2025
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
House of Representatives
5/28/2025
Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
Senate
5/29/2025
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs.
Senate
Roll Call Votes
House Vote on HB 299 FINAL PASSAGE (#667)
5/28/2025
92
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
13
Absent
Result: PASSED
Status Information
Current Status
Engrossed(5/28/2025)
Chamber
Senate
Committee
Local & Municipal Affairs(Senate)
Sponsors
Republican: 1
Primary Sponsor
Francis Thompson
Republican