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Read. Follow. Verify.Louisiana reduces Delta Economic Research and Sustainability District board size from 26 to 23 members
Last action · May 29, 2026: Effective date: 08/01/2026.Sponsor: Travis Johnson
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What This Bill Does
Act 560 reduces the board of commissioners of the Delta Economic Research and Sustainability District from twenty-six to twenty-three members, removing certain university and state official positions while adding others, with an effective date of August 1, 2026.
Modifies the governing authority and representation structure of a regional economic development district by altering voting and nonvoting membership slots.
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Delta Economic Research and Sustainability District
The district's governing board composition and total member count are modified by the legislation.
Louisiana State Law Institute
The institute is directed to alphabetize, renumber definitions, and correct cross-references in the affected statute.
Key Facts
- Reduces the total membership of the board of commissioners of the Delta Economic Research and Sustainability District from twenty-six to twenty-three members.
- Adds the executive director of the Louisiana State University Center for Energy Studies or their designee as an ex officio nonvoting member.
- Repeals R.S. 3:342(A)(2), (25), and (26) in their entirety.
- Directs the Louisiana State Law Institute to alphabetize and renumber the definitions contained in R.S. 3:342(A) and correct any cross-references.
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- Sets the effective date of the act as August 1, 2026.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
20 actions- May 29, 2026HouseEnrolledSigned by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 560.
- May 29, 2026HouseEffective date: 08/01/2026.
- May 26, 2026HouseSent to the Governor for executive approval.
- May 25, 2026HouseReceived from the Senate without amendments.
- May 25, 2026HouseEnrolledEnrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- May 25, 2026SenateEnrolledSigned by the President of the Senate.
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- May 21, 2026SenateFloorRules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
- May 14, 2026SenateFloorReported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- May 13, 2026SenateIntroducedRead by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- May 12, 2026SenateCommitteeReported favorably.
- Apr 20, 2026SenateCommitteeRead second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.
- Apr 15, 2026HouseFloorRead third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
- Apr 15, 2026SenateReceived in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- Apr 14, 2026HouseScheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2026.
- Apr 13, 2026HouseFloorRead by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- Apr 9, 2026HouseReported with amendments (13-0).
- Mar 9, 2026HouseIntroducedRead by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.
- Feb 27, 2026HousePrefiled.
- Feb 27, 2026HouseCommitteeUnder the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.
- Feb 27, 2026HouseFirst appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
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